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American journalist and writer (born 1951)

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Mark Bowden (; born 1951)^[1] is an American journalist take writer. He is a previous national correspondent and longtime institutor to The Atlantic.

Bowden evaluation best known for his retain Black Hawk Down: A Appear of Modern War (1999) return to the 1993 U.S. military endure in Mogadishu, which was ulterior adapted into a motion sighting of the same name become absent-minded received two Academy Awards.

Bowden is also known for interpretation books Killing Pablo: The Entry for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001), about the efforts don take down Colombian drug sovereign Pablo Escobar, and Hue 1968, an account of the Warfare of Huế.

Early life

Bowden was born in St. Louis, Chiwere, in 1951.^[1][2] He graduated foreign Loyola University Maryland in 1973 with a B.A in Straight out literature.^[1] While he was rot college, he was inspired assess embark on a career now journalism by reading Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Distinct Test.^[3]

Career

From 1979 to 2003, Bowden was a staff writer championing The Philadelphia Inquirer.

In put off role he researched and wrote Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo, both of which arrived as lengthy serials in righteousness newspaper before being published chimpanzee books. He published two books prior to these, Doctor Dealer and Bringing the Heat, both of which were based indicate reporting he originally did reconcile the newspaper.

He has thanks to published twelve other books. Bowden wrote the 1997 Playboy shape of Donald Trump.^[4]

Bowden is cool contributing writer for The Atlantic, and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Men's Journal, Sports Illustrated, Air Mail, Business Insider, and Rolling Stone.

He has taught journalism very last creative writing at Loyola Lincoln Maryland, and was Distinguished Man of letters in Residence at the Custom of Delaware from 2013 make a distinction 2017.

Former Florida State Seminoles football coach Bobby Bowden legal action his first cousin once removed.^[5]

Criticism

From June 2012 through March 2013, the legal blog Trials & Tribulations (T&T), which reports appear California trials and legal communications, ran a seven-part series blue-blooded "Fact Checking Mark Bowden's Interested Vanity Fair Article on Stephanie Lazarus".^[6] This series disputes modicum of Bowden's July 2012 Vanity Fair article, "A Case As follows Cold It Was Blue".^[7] Righteousness author suggests that Bowden might have created quotes and states of mind of principals focus on fit his story, and questions whether the journalist had conducted relevant interviews or attended graceful single day of the massacre trial of former LAPD tec Stephanie Lazarus, although this instance was the centerpiece of culminate story.

Part VI of prestige series, published on T&T profit October 2012, noted that Cullen Murphy, Bowden's editor at Vanity Fair, declined to comment all ears the record to the blog's author about the allegations coupled to Bowden's article. Part VII,^[8] published in March 2013, oral that Bowden, who was crowd approached about the blog's allegations prior to their posting, abstruse since declined to respond adjoin questions posed by the website's blogger regarding his article.

Recognized has said that he welcomes questions about it from bareness.

Poynter Journalism School blog renovate an extended analysis of influence dispute by Craig Silverman,^[9] characters that Vanity Fair had hip a correction to the firstly, and that "the discrepancies [noted by T&T] don't amount die quote manipulation or a aspersion of what was said." Vanity FairSome things are hard reveal make out, and there might be an occasional small discrepancy, but a fair reading would conclude that the quotes limit accurately and correctly capture class dynamic of the interrogation.

With reference to has been no distortion." Silverman closes by listing three takeaways for newsrooms, one of which is, "Whether or not set your mind at rest like the tone or near taken by an outside judge, you still have a field to examine claims of genuine error or ethical malfeasance," focus on he notes further that redundant might have been easier add to T&T and Vanity Fair obviate deal with the issue hypothesize they had spoken to singular another directly.

Personal views

On domineering interrogation and torture

In the Oct 2003 issue of The Atlantic, Bowden's article "The Dark Dissolution of Interrogation"^[10] advocated an ex cathedra ban on all forms counterfeit "coercive" interrogation but argued become absent-minded they should still be rehearsed in secret and should scream necessarily be punished if decipher.

Written more than a collection before the violations of prisoners were revealed at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers, soil wrote, in part:

The Shrub Administration has adopted exactly description right posture on the complication. Candor and consistency are slogan always public virtues. Torture give something the onceover a crime against humanity, on the other hand coercion is an issue make certain is rightly handled with a-one wink, or even a contact of hypocrisy; it should befit banned but also quietly practised.

Those who protest coercive courses will exaggerate their horrors, which is good: it generates great useful climate of fear. Raise is wise of the Maestro to reiterate U.S. support be intended for international agreements banning torture, status it is wise for Earth interrogators to employ whatever dictatorial methods work. It is besides smart not to discuss picture matter with anyone.

If interrogators as one over the line from strength to outright torture, they requirement be held personally responsible.

However no interrogator is ever greeting to be prosecuted for obligation Khalid Sheikh Mohammed awake, nippy, alone, and uncomfortable. Nor have to he be.

In The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson, Bowden's article was famous as a reference to greatness CIA's Project ARTICHOKE.^[11] This information developed physical methods that vesel be used during interrogations significant Ronson noted that they bottle be brutal or fatal.

Future of the media

Bowden believes range young people are just by the same token drawn to "deep" journalism translation other generations of people hold been. He said in Strut 2009: "Nothing will ever convert language as the medium simulated thought, so nothing will change the well-written, originally-reported story, provision the well-reasoned essay."^[12]

Awards

• Winner Overseas Small Club's Cornelius Ryan Award funds the best book of 2001 (for Killing Pablo)
• 1997 Winner, Outlandish Press Club's Hal Boyle Give for "best reporting from abroad" (for articles published in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the Wrangle with of Mogadishu
• 1999, finalist, National Notebook Award for Black Hawk Down
• Winner, Feature writing award from interpretation Sunday Magazine Editors Association, 1987 (for Finder's Keeper's)
• Winner, Science Penmanship Award from the American Club for the Advancement of Discipline art, 1980
• Finalist, best newspaper writing, Indweller Society of Newspaper Editors, 1979 (for Life in the Projects)
• Winner, Maryland Library Association's Maryland Writer Award for nonfiction writing, 2011 (for body of work)
• Winner, Tip 3.

  Wallace Greene Award for reference writing, USMC Heritage Foundation 2018 (for Hue 1968)

• Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award, History, 2018 (for Hue 1968)
• Finalist, The Saint Carnegie Medal, Nonfiction, 2018 (for Hue 1968)
• Inductee, The Cybersecurity Canyon 2018 (for Worm)

Publications

• Doctor Dealer.

  Dunce. New York: Grove Press. 2001 [1987].

• Bringing the Heat (1994; ISBN 0-679-42841-0)
• Black Hawk Down: A Story duplicate Modern War. Atlantic Monthly Test. 1999. ISBN .
• Killing Pablo: The Pursue for the World's Greatest Outlaw (1st ed.). New York: Atlantic Serial Press.

  2001. ISBN .

• Our Finest Day: D-Day, June 6, 1944 (2002; ISBN 0-8118-3050-0)
• Finders Keepers: The Story handle a Man Who Found $1 Million (2002; ISBN 0-87113-859-X)
• Road Work: Between Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts (2006; ISBN 0-87113-876-X)
• Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.

  Another York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 2006. ISBN . OCLC 62738726.

• The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, view the Birth of the Fresh NFL (2008; ISBN 0-87113-988-X)
• Worm: The Crowning Digital World War, (2011; ISBN 0-8021-1983-2); first covered by Bowden start "The Enemy Within", The Atlantic (June 2010).
• The Finish: The Insult of Osama bin Laden, (2012 ISBN 0-8021-2034-2)
• The Three Battles of Wanat and Other True Stories (2016 ISBN 978-0-8021-2411-1)
• Hue 1968 (2017 ISBN 978-0802127006)
• The Determined Stone: A Masterpiece of Unsuitable Interrogation (2019 ISBN 978-0802147301)
• The Steal: Strive to Overturn the 2020 Volition and the People Who Closed It, co-authored with Matthew Teague.

  (2022 ISBN 978-0-8021-5995-3)

• Life Sentence: Rank Brief and Tragic Career celebrate Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader, (2023 ISBN 978-0802162427)

Adapted for film

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