Woodrow Wilson High School alumnus Lawrence Wright profiled on CBS

Woodrow Wilson High School. Photography by Renee Umsted.

Lawrence Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, was recently profiled on a national CBS program.

Wright was interviewed for CBS Saturday Morning in early November.

In the segment, he talked about his ability to predict the future. His book The End of October was published in the spring of 2020 and follows the life of a character, Henry Parsons, a high-ranking medical professional who tries to control a deadly pathogen.

He also wrote a film about terrorism, The Siege, which came out in 1998. Later, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which tells the story of 9/11 and was turned into a series.

“It’s not prophecy,” Wright told CBS. “It’s just research.”

Wright was born in Oklahoma and moved to Dallas as a teen. He opposed the Vietnam War and taught English in Cairo for two years. When he returned to the United States, he worked for Texas Monthly and then The New Yorker.

Throughout his career, he has covered a range of important and serious topics. And now, Wright is focusing his work closer to home — Texas — which he said is the future of America.

Watch the interview below.