Deborah Scroggins Explained

Deborah Scroggins
Birth Date:27 November 1961
Birth Place:Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Alma Mater:Tulane University
Columbia University

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]

Early life

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.

Career

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]

Personal life

Scroggins married Colin Campbell,[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] February 20, 1993.[5] They have two daughters.[5] [31]

Works

References

  1. Web site: Deborah Scroggins - Director of Research and Analysis . Leadership . SIGAR.mil . 2 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240605042853/https://www.sigar.mil/about/leadership/leadership.aspx?SSR=1&SubSSR=2&WP=Director%20of%20Research%20and%20Analysis . June 5, 2024.
  2. Web site: Deborah Lane Scroggins, Class of 1978 . Hall of Fame 2013 . Chamblee High School Blue & Gold Foundation . 2 August 2024.
  3. "Deborah Scroggins." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007.
  4. Web site: Frank Scroggins Obituary . Legacy.com . 2 August 2024 . en . 13 August 2010.
  5. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/scroggins-deborah-1961 Deborah Scroggins 1961-
  6. Web site: Master of International Affairs . . 2 August 2024.
  7. News: Campbell . Colin . ON LANGUAGE; Bluespeak . 2 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110218101321/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/07/magazine/on-language-bluespeak.html . February 18, 2011 . The New York Times . 7 August 1994.
  8. Web site: The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1988 . . 2 August 2024 . 15 April 1989.
  9. Web site: 2006 Winners & Finalists . Georgia Author of the Year Awards . 2 August 2024.
  10. News: Bedell . Geraldine . A good woman in Africa . 2 August 2024 . . 9 March 2003.
  11. News: Griswold . Eliza . Book Review: Islam and the West Through the Eyes of Two Women . 2 August 2024 . . 27 January 2012.
  12. News: EMMA’S WAR . 2 August 2024 . . August 1, 2002 . en.
  13. News: Goldberg . Michelle . 'Emma's War' by Deborah Scroggins . 2 August 2024 . . 12 December 2002 . en.
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20071017054850/http://www.ridenhour.org/recipients_02b.shtml Ridenhour Prize bio
  15. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/10/deborahScroggins.html SIPA Alumna Deborah Scroggins Wins Ron Ridenhour Truth-telling Award
  16. Web site: Deborah Scroggins . Ridenhour Prizes . 2 August 2024 . en.
  17. News: Scroggins . Deborah . Deborah Scroggins . Beyond Darfur there is the plight of southern Sudan . 2 August 2024 . independent.co.uk . 26 October 2007 . 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.
  18. News: South Sudan's rivals, Kiir and Machar . 2 August 2024 . . . 16 August 2015 . en-SG . 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..
  19. Book: Scroggins , Deborah. Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui . registration . 2012 . Harper Collins . 9780062097958.
  20. News: Foster . Jordan . Muslim Women's Rights: Two Views: PW Talks with Deborah Scroggins . 2 August 2024 . . October 14, 2011 . en.
  21. News: Roberts . Andrew . British Historian Andrew Roberts Reviews Deborah Scroggins’ 'Wanted Women' . 2 August 2024 . Tablet Magazine . February 2, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120204121023/http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/90030/heroine-stupor/ . 4 February 2012.
  22. Web site: Ahmed . Akbar . Akbar Ahmed . After Words: Deborah Scroggins, "Wanted Women," hosted by Akbar Ahmed, American University . . . 2 August 2024 . February 6, 2012.
  23. News: Rhone . Nedra . Author explores lives of wanted women in war on terror . 2 August 2024 . . February 17, 2012 . https://archive.today/20240802222335/https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/calendar/author-explores-lives-wanted-women-war-terror/PBUUgadgSuV2FSyd0HeQ7H/ . 2 August 2024 . English.
  24. News: Campbell . Colin . PRESS COVERAGE CRITICIZED IN DISASTER IN PUERTO RICO . https://web.archive.org/web/20150524171547/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/15/us/press-coverage-criticized-in-disaster-in-puerto-rico.html . May 24, 2015 . 2 August 2024 . The New York Times . 15 October 1985.
  25. News: A City in Full: Venerable, Impatient Atlanta . 2 August 2024 . archive.nytimes.com.
  26. News: Campbell . Colin . Opinion - Ghostly Residents Protest in Atlanta . 2 August 2024 . The New York Times . 14 January 1994.
  27. News: Colin Campbell . 2 August 2024 . The New Republic . en-us.
  28. News: Colin Campbell: Sturgis Library’s Idea Man for the Vonnegut Festival . 2 August 2024 . CapeCod.com . 3 October 2014.
  29. News: Edelstein . Ken . Up with Gwinnett, down with columnists at the AJC . 2 August 2024 . Creative Loafing . August 25, 2004 . en.
  30. News: Campbell . Colin . From 2001: My family tree . 2 August 2024 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20210816182730/https://www.ajc.com/life/from-2001-my-family-tree/LSJMB7GQ4RAOTKAHUXXLFD5EV4/ . August 16, 2021 . English.
  31. News: Cater . Eleanor . Time Out . 2 August 2024 . bizjournals.com . February 24, 2012.

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