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Deborah Scroggins
Born (1961-11-27) November 27, 1961 (age 62)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
Alma materTulane 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

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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

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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

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

Works

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  • Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, the Politics of Oil and Slaves — A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan. New York: Vintage. 2002. ISBN 9780307808851. OCLC 70772490.
  • Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. Harper Collins. 17 January 2012. ISBN 9780062097958.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Deborah Scroggins - Director of Research and Analysis". Leadership. SIGAR.mil. Archived from the original on June 5, 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Deborah Lane Scroggins, Class of 1978". Hall of Fame 2013. Chamblee High School Blue & Gold Foundation. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Deborah Scroggins." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007.
  4. ^ "Frank Scroggins Obituary". Legacy.com. 13 August 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e Deborah Scroggins 1961- at Encyclopedia.com
  6. ^ "Master of International Affairs". School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  7. ^ Campbell, Colin (7 August 1994). "ON LANGUAGE; Bluespeak". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 18, 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  8. ^ "The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1988". Overseas Press Club of America. 15 April 1989. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  9. ^ "2006 Winners & Finalists". Georgia Author of the Year Awards. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  10. ^ Bedell, Geraldine (9 March 2003). "A good woman in Africa". The Observer. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  11. ^ Griswold, Eliza (27 January 2012). "Book Review: Islam and the West Through the Eyes of Two Women". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  12. ^ "EMMA'S WAR". Kirkus Reviews. August 1, 2002. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  13. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (12 December 2002). "'Emma's War' by Deborah Scroggins". Salon.com. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  14. ^ Ridenhour Prize bio
  15. ^ SIPA Alumna Deborah Scroggins Wins Ron Ridenhour Truth-telling Award, Columbia News
  16. ^ "Deborah Scroggins". Ridenhour Prizes. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  17. ^ Scroggins, Deborah (26 October 2007). "Beyond Darfur there is the plight of southern Sudan". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2024. 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. ^ "South Sudan's rivals, Kiir and Machar". sg Yahoo News. AFP News. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2024. 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. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Foster, Jordan (October 14, 2011). "Muslim Women's Rights: Two Views: PW Talks with Deborah Scroggins". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  21. ^ Roberts, Andrew (February 2, 2012). "British Historian Andrew Roberts Reviews Deborah Scroggins' 'Wanted Women'". Tablet Magazine. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  22. ^ Ahmed, Akbar (February 6, 2012). "After Words: Deborah Scroggins, "Wanted Women," hosted by Akbar Ahmed, American University". youtube. BookTV. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  23. ^ Rhone, Nedra (February 17, 2012). "Author explores lives of wanted women in war on terror". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on 2 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  24. ^ Campbell, Colin (15 October 1985). "PRESS COVERAGE CRITICIZED IN DISASTER IN PUERTO RICO". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  25. ^ "A City in Full: Venerable, Impatient Atlanta". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  26. ^ Campbell, Colin (14 January 1994). "Opinion - Ghostly Residents Protest in Atlanta". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  27. ^ "Colin Campbell". The New Republic. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  28. ^ "Colin Campbell: Sturgis Library's Idea Man for the Vonnegut Festival". CapeCod.com. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  29. ^ Edelstein, Ken (August 25, 2004). "Up with Gwinnett, down with columnists at the AJC". Creative Loafing. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  30. ^ Campbell, Colin. "From 2001: My family tree". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on August 16, 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  31. ^ Cater, Eleanor (February 24, 2012). "Time Out". bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
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