Evan Alan Wright, whose visceral book about the Iraq war “Generation Kill” became the HBO miniseries by the same name, has died by suicide. He was 59 years old.
Wright’s death was confirmed by his sister, Nora Wright, who told TheWrap that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from his teenage years and said, “People need to talk about what’s hurting them.”
His nephew Jacob Goldin told TheWrap, “We didn’t always see eye to eye, but the past couple of weeks I was in close contact with him. He was talking to me a lot about [his trauma] specifically, and that he wanted to come see me.