Award-winning journalist and the author of “Generation Kill,” Evan Wright, has died.

He was 59.

Wright died by suicide at his home in Los Angeles on Friday, according to the County Medical Examiner’s Office. His widow, Kelli Wright, also confirmed his death to his former publication, Rolling Stone, on Sunday.

Wright gained nationwide notoriety as a writer when he embedded himself with the US Marine Corps’ 1st Reconnaissance Battalion as they helped spearhead the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He spent two months with the battalion as they pushed toward Baghdad, gaining the Marines’ trust during combat operations and providing a detailed firsthand account of their struggles in the active war zone.

Wright’s experience led to the release of a three-part series for Rolling Stone titled “The Killer Elite” upon his return from Iraq, which earned him the National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting in 2004.

The success of his articles led him to expand the series into the critically acclaimed book “Generation Kill” that same year.

After publication, the book received numerous awards, including the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for “Current Interest,” and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s award for outstanding nonfiction.

Following its success, “The Wire” creator David Simon later adapted the book into a seven-part miniseries for HBO in 2008.

Wright was also a writer for the miniseries alongside Simon and actor Ed Burns.

The show was nominated for 11 Emmys in 2009, including Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries.

“We’ve lost a fine journalist and storyteller. Evan’s contributions to the scripting and filming of Generation Kill were elemental,” Simon posted on X Sunday.

“He was charming, funny and not a little bit feral, as many reporters are. So many moments writing in Baltimore and on set in Africa to remember.”

Nathan Fick, a then-young Marine officer and recon platoon commander Wright predominantly featured in “Generation Kill” and “The Killer Elite,” said he remembered the journalist as a “good and gentle guy in a place that was neither good nor gentle.”

“He wasn’t a Marine, but many of us who spent March and April 2003 alongside him have thought of Evan for the past two decades as one of us. Rest in peace, brother,” Fick wrote in a statement on LinkedIn Monday.

Wright was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and later attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, earning a degree in Medieval History in the 1990s before moving to Los Angeles.

Prior to his work for Rolling Stone, he was an entertainment editor at Hustler in 1995.

In 2008, he earned his second National Magazine Award for Profile Writing for his work on the Vanity Fair article “Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood.”

Wright also authored the books “Hella Nation” (2009), which chronicles different subcultures across America, and “How to Get Away With Murder in America” (2012), which detailed the account of an FBI murder investigation into a top-ranking CIA officer.

Wright had been promoting the new Max documentary, “Teen Torture, Inc.,” in which he was interviewed about his time at the “South Florida-based so-called scared straight program for at-risk adolescents” called The Seed, for the series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

He is listed as a co-executive producer on the project, and the show’s first episode aired the day before his the day before his death.

One of Wright’s final posts on X was promoting the series.

Wright is survived by his wife, Kelli, and their three children.

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text Crisis Text Line at 741741.