He is currently the international correspondent for the magazine Vanity Fair, but made his name as a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine. He has written articles covering events such as the World Trade Center cleanup, a three-part series which was published as the book American Ground. He also detailed the last flight of the shuttle Columbia.

He is the son of Wolfgang Langewiesche, author of Stick and Rudder.

Langewiesche currently lives in France. As of Spring 2006, both he and managing editor Cullen Murphy left The Atlantic for Vanity Fair. [1]

Langewiesche was a finalist for the 2004 Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage for American Ground. Unbuilding the World Trade Center and 2005 for The Outlaw Sea. He was a finalist for the 2007 Michael Kelly Award.

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• Hotel Baghdad: Fear and Lodging in Iraq (2005) [3]

Interviews

• Video interview with Stephen Colbert May 14, 2007
• The Eventualist: William Langewiesche on The Atomic Bazaar and Facing our Worst Fear, by Nancy Rommelmann July 25, 2007

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