Deborah Scroggins

Deborah Scroggins (born November 27, 1961) is an American journalist and author. She heads the Research and Analysis Directorate, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

Early life Deborah Lane Scroggins was born 27 November 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia, as the daughter of Gloria (née Baker, a personnel agent) and Frank William Scroggins (a lawyer ).

Scroggins graduated in the Class of 1978 at Chamblee High School. 1985. 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".

She won Georgia Author of the Year, 2003, 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. 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. The project was in development at the time of Scott's death in 2012; 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, 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.

Personal life Scroggins married Colin Campbell, February 20, 1993.

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