Johnson received his BA from the University of Chicago in 2002.īorn in West Chicago, he lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles. Prior to his work in Iraq, he conducted research on political Islamism as a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. During this period, he traveled over 14,000 miles to gather over 125,000 specimens of reptiles, insects, and birds, among them the mysterious Birds of Paradise, one of.

Agency for International Development in Baghdad and then Fallujah as the Agency's first coordinator for reconstruction in the war-torn city. The Feather Thief (Paperback edition cover) Alfred Russel Wallace, shortly after his return from an eight-year collecting expedition throughout the Malay Archipelago, in 1862. Johnson previously served in Iraq with the U.S. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one mans relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy, among others. Johnson is the author of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century and To Be a Friend is Fatal: the Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind, which covers his work coordinating the reconstruction of Fallujah and his subsequent efforts on behalf of Iraqi refugees as the. Johnson is the author of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century and To Be a Friend is Fatal: the Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind, which covers his work coordinating the reconstruction of Fallujah and his subsequent efforts on behalf of Iraqi refugees as the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies.

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