Deborah Scroggins

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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]

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.

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]}

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

• 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.

• Deborah Scroggins Bio and articles from The Nation
• Deborah Scroggins 1961- at Encyclopedia.com
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• John Adams Institute (Netherlands). Deborah Scroggins on Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror on YouTube - TheJohnAdamsInstitute
• Emma's War at IMDb