Packer was a Holtzbrinck Fellow Class of Fall 2009 at the American Academy in Berlin.
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His great-grandfather, George Huddleston, Sr., was also a congressman from Alabama in the earlier part of the 20th Century.
After serving with the Peace Corps in Togo in 1982-3, George Packer wrote The Village of Waiting about his experiences there.
On the New York stage, he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a former Iraqi translator for the U.S. military, in George Packer's Betrayed.
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