Deborah Scroggins
Born (1961-11-27) November 27, 1961
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTulane University
Columbia University

Deborah Scroggins (November 27, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia[1]) is an American journalist and author. A graduate of Tulane University and Columbia University, she was a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1987 to 1998.[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 is about Emma McCune, a British aid worker who married Sudanese warlord Riek Machar. It won the 2003 Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling. Director Tony Scott had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated that Nicole Kidman would star as McCune.[2] The project was in development at the time of Scott's death in 2012;[3] its fate following Scott's death remains unclear.

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,[4] 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.

References

  1. 1 2 "Deborah Scroggins." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007.
  2. ↑ Tom Anderson, The Independent'-, March 27, 2005
  3. ↑ Emma's War at IMDb
  4. ↑ Scroggins, Deborah (2012). Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062097958.
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