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| Born | November 27, 1961 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
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Deborah Scroggins (November 27, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American journalist and author. She heads the Research and Analysis Directorate, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. [1]
Deborah Lane Scroggins [2] was born 27 November 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia, [3] as the daughter of Gloria (née Baker, a personnel agent) and Frank William Scroggins (a lawyer [4] ). [5]
Scroggins graduated in the Class of 1978 at Chamblee High School. [2]
She is a graduate of Tulane University, B.A., 1982 and Columbia University, Master of International Affairs, [6] 1985. [5]
Scroggins received the ITT International Fellowship, Institute of International Education, 1982-1983, for a year of independent study, in Denmark.
She was a free-lance writer, for Inter Press Service, 1984-1985. She was an editor, United Nations Association of New York, in New York City, 1985-1987. [5]
She was a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1987 to 1998, [3] and a foreign correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1988 to 1993. [1] She later served as assistant political editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [1]
She has written for Granta, The Independent, The Sunday Times Magazine, Vogue and other publications. [1]
Colin Campbell [7] and Deborah Scroggins won The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1988, from the Overseas Press Club of America, for "The Famine Weapon in the Horn of Africa". [8]
She won Georgia Author of the Year, 2003, [2] [9] two Overseas Press Club Awards, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for her coverage of Africa and Asia, including Afghanistan. [1]
Her book Emma's War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan [10] [11] [12] [13] is about Emma McCune, a British aid worker who married Sudanese warlord Riek Machar. It won the 2003 Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling. [14] [15] [16]
Director Tony Scott had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated that Nicole Kidman would star as McCune. [17] The project was in development at the time of Scott's death in 2012; its fate following Scott's death remains unclear. [18]
Scroggins has also written a second book: Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui, [19] an examination of the militant Islam movement through the lives of two women on opposite sides of the spectrum: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. [20] [21] [22] [23]
Scroggins married Colin Campbell, [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] February 20, 1993. [5] They have two daughters. [5] [31]
Chamblee is a city in northern DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, northeast of Atlanta. The population was 30,164 as of the 2020 census.
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Deborah Scroggins is the author of 'Emma's War' (Harper Collins), which tells the story of a British aid worker who married a southern Sudanese rebel, and is now being made into a film
Their love story was told in the book "Emma's War" by journalist Deborah Scroggins, a tale once touted in Hollywood as possible film material.
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