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Evan Alan Wright (born 1966) is an American writer, known for his extensive reporting on subcultures for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, sometimes using his full name: Evan Alan Wright. He is best known for his book on the Iraq War, Generation Kill. In 2012 he wrote an expose about a top CIA officer who allegedly worked as a mob hit man, How to Get Away With Murder in America.

Though some compare his writings to those of Hunter S. Thompson, Wright claims his biggest literary influences were Mark Twain and British-American author Christopher Isherwood. The New York Times called his military writing "nuanced and grounded in details often overlooked in daily journalistic accounts" and noted his…

2004 - Generation Kill / Элита убийц (статьи из Rolling Stone)
2009 - Hella Nation
2011 - American Desperado (with Jon Roberts)
2012 - How to Get Away with Murder in America
2015 - The Constable (Kings of Summer Book 1)

2004 – Los Angeles Times Book Prize for "Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War"
2004 – National Magazine Award for Reporting, the top prize in magazine writing
2005 – J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from the Columbia University School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation
2005 – PEN USA Literary Award in research nonfiction for "Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War"
2005 – General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award from the U.S. Marine Corps Heritage Society for writing the Best History of the Marine Corps
2008 – National Magazine Award for Profile Writing for his Vanity Fair profile titled "Pat…