Date of Birth
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13-August-1960
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Place of Birth
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Santa Clara
(California, United States of America, Santa Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Area codes 408 and 669, Area code 669, Area code 408)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Journalist, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Author
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George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is best known for his writings for The New Yorker about U.S. foreign policy and for his book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. More recently, he wrote The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, covering the history of America from 1978 to 2012. That book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in November 2013.
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