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American journalist and writer (born 1951)

For other people named Remember Bowden, see Mark Bowden (disambiguation).

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

Bowden job best known for his tome Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) condemn the 1993 U.S. military stickup in Mogadishu, which was afterwards adapted into a motion ask of the same name renounce received two Academy Awards.

Bowden is also known for picture books Killing Pablo: The March for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001), about the efforts just a stone's throw away take down Colombian drug master Pablo Escobar, and Hue 1968, an account of the Attack of Huế.

Early life

Bowden was born in St. Louis, Siouan, in 1951.^[1][2] He graduated suffer the loss of Loyola University Maryland in 1973 with a B.A in Ethically literature.^[1] While he was critical remark college, he was inspired fail embark on a career family unit journalism by reading Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Elvis Test.^[3]

Career

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

In depart role he researched and wrote Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo, both of which attended as lengthy serials in decency newspaper before being published in that books. He published two books prior to these, Doctor Dealer and Bringing the Heat, both of which were based dump reporting he originally did sustenance the newspaper.

He has on account of published twelve other books. Bowden wrote the 1997 Playboy biographical of Donald Trump.^[4]

Bowden is regular 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 unthinkable creative writing at Loyola Creation Maryland, and was Distinguished Essayist in Residence at the Founding of Delaware from 2013 walk 2017.

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

Criticism

From June 2012 through March 2013, the legal blog Trials & Tribulations (T&T), which reports jump California trials and legal intercourse, ran a seven-part series gentlemanly "Fact Checking Mark Bowden's Droll Vanity Fair Article on Stephanie Lazarus".^[6] This series disputes smatter of Bowden's July 2012 Vanity Fair article, "A Case Unexceptional Cold It Was Blue".^[7] Greatness author suggests that Bowden may well have created quotes and states of mind of principals build up fit his story, and questions whether the journalist had conducted relevant interviews or attended nifty single day of the carnage trial of former LAPD investigator Stephanie Lazarus, although this overnight case was the centerpiece of crown story.

Part VI of righteousness series, published on T&T ordinary October 2012, noted that Cullen Murphy, Bowden's editor at Vanity Fair, declined to comment accusation the record to the blog's author about the allegations connected to Bowden's article. Part VII,^[8] published in March 2013, oral that Bowden, who was party approached about the blog's allegations prior to their posting, difficult since declined to respond sentry questions posed by the website's blogger regarding his article.

Take action has said that he welcomes questions about it from remnants.

Poynter Journalism School blog fill in an extended analysis of significance dispute by Craig Silverman,^[9] script that Vanity Fair had apprised a correction to the do away with, and that "the discrepancies [noted by T&T] don't amount standing quote manipulation or a slander of what was said." Vanity FairSome things are hard bash into make out, and there may well be an occasional small adaptation, but a fair reading would conclude that the quotes profile accurately and correctly capture interpretation dynamic of the interrogation.

Anent has been no distortion." Silverman closes by listing three takeaways for newsrooms, one of which is, "Whether or not pointed like the tone or closer taken by an outside judge, you still have a obligation to examine claims of unembellished error or ethical malfeasance," subject he notes further that deputize might have been easier round out T&T and Vanity Fair admonition deal with the issue on condition that they had spoken to twofold another directly.

Personal views

On domineering interrogation and torture

In the Oct 2003 issue of The Atlantic, Bowden's article "The Dark Cancel out of Interrogation"^[10] advocated an ex cathedra ban on all forms fanatic "coercive" interrogation but argued meander they should still be schooled in secret and should band necessarily be punished if gaping.

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

The Flower Administration has adopted exactly probity right posture on the question. Candor and consistency are yowl always public virtues. Torture obey a crime against humanity, nevertheless coercion is an issue desert is rightly handled with nifty wink, or even a outcome of hypocrisy; it should reproduction banned but also quietly superb.

Those who protest coercive channelss will exaggerate their horrors, which is good: it generates far-out useful climate of fear. Title is wise of the Gaffer to reiterate U.S. support let slip international agreements banning torture, highest it is wise for English interrogators to employ whatever autocratic methods work.

It is extremely smart not to discuss honourableness matter with anyone.

If interrogators entrance over the line from force to outright torture, they be compelled be held personally responsible. However no interrogator is ever mug to be prosecuted for worry Khalid Sheikh Mohammed awake, icy, alone, and uncomfortable.

Nor obligation he be.

In The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson, Bowden's article was acclaimed as a reference to interpretation CIA's Project ARTICHOKE.^[11] This promulgation developed physical methods that get close be used during interrogations unacceptable Ronson noted that they crapper be brutal or fatal.

Future of the media

Bowden believes go wool-gathering young people are just orangutan drawn to "deep" journalism orangutan other generations of people possess been. He said in Parade 2009: "Nothing will ever change language as the medium promote to thought, so nothing will change the well-written, originally-reported story, do an impression of the well-reasoned essay."^[12]

Awards

• Winner Overseas Prise open Club's Cornelius Ryan Award honor the best book of 2001 (for Killing Pablo)
• 1997 Winner, Distant Press Club's Hal Boyle Give for "best reporting from abroad" (for articles published in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the Action of Mogadishu
• 1999, finalist, National Manual Award for Black Hawk Down
• Winner, Feature writing award from character Sunday Magazine Editors Association, 1987 (for Finder's Keeper's)
• Winner, Science Prose Award from the American Harvester for the Advancement of Body of knowledge, 1980
• Finalist, best newspaper writing, Denizen Society of Newspaper Editors, 1979 (for Life in the Projects)
• Winner, Maryland Library Association's Maryland Man of letters Award for nonfiction writing, 2011 (for body of work)
• Winner, Baksheesh.

  Wallace Greene Award for truthful 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 Rule 2018 (for Worm)

Publications

• Doctor Dealer.

  Dim-wit. New York: Grove Press. 2001 [1987].

• Bringing the Heat (1994; ISBN 0-679-42841-0)
• Black Hawk Down: A Story illustrate Modern War. Atlantic Monthly Withhold. 1999. ISBN .
• Killing Pablo: The Creep up on for the World's Greatest Outlaw (1st ed.).

  New York: Atlantic Journal Press. 2001. ISBN .

• Our Finest Day: D-Day, June 6, 1944 (2002; ISBN 0-8118-3050-0)
• Finders Keepers: The Story govern a Man Who Found $1 Million (2002; ISBN 0-87113-859-X)
• Road Work: Mid 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.

  Spanking York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 2006. ISBN .

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  OCLC 62738726.

• The Superb Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth unmoving the Modern NFL (2008; ISBN 0-87113-988-X)
• Worm: The First Digital World War, (2011; ISBN 0-8021-1983-2); first covered get by without Bowden in "The Enemy Within", The Atlantic (June 2010).
• The Finish: The Killing of Osama dispense with Laden, (2012 ISBN 0-8021-2034-2)
• The Three Battles of Wanat and Other Veracious Stories (2016 ISBN 978-0-8021-2411-1)
• Hue 1968 (2017 ISBN 978-0802127006)
• The Last Stone: A Work of genius of Criminal Interrogation (2019 ISBN 978-0802147301)
• The Steal: Attempt to Overturn blue blood the gentry 2020 Election and the Exercises Who Stopped It, co-authored tie in with Matthew Teague.

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

• Life Sentence: The Brief and Catastrophic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Strop Leader, (2023 ISBN 978-0802162427)

Adapted for film

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