Robert Nicholas McDonell (born February 18, 1984) is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher.
Published by Flammarion in 2008, this work recorded the reactions of university students from 2003 to 2008 to the Iraq War involving American armed forces.
With the publication in August 2009 of his third novel, An Expensive Education, reviewers compared McDonell to both Graham Greene and John le Carré.
The review in The Washington Post on August 12, 2009, said: "Now 25, McDonell has reached an age at which it is not so freakish to write a good book which is fortunate because he has done it again."
White City was already used as the name for other Hollywood projects in the past so the title of the series was deemed too confusing to television and film audiences.
Arriving in April 2016, McDonell's book published by Hurst in the UK is a work of non-fiction examining the experiences of nomads in remote locations from Africa to Asia.
[4] New York Times book critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Michiko Kakutani described McDonell's debut novel Twelve as being "As fast as speed, as relentless as acid."
The first pre-publication review of McDonell's third novel An Expensive Education, appeared in Publishers Weekly where it was compared to "le Carré's better works."
McDonell has also been acclaimed for his book La Guerre a Harvard published in France in 2009, and articles from Darfur for Harper's Magazine 2009, and for Time from Iraq.