Mark Danner

Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is a prominent American journalist, writer, and educator. He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs and has written extensively on Haiti, Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle East. In 1999, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Danner was born at Utica, New York. He attended Utica Fre... more

Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is a prominent American journalist, writer, and educator. He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs and has written extensively on Haiti, Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle East. In 1999, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Danner was born at Utica, New York. He attended Utica Free Academy, a public high school, and then Harvard, where he graduated with a degree in modern literatures and aesthetics in 1981. After leaving Harvard, Danner joined the staff of The New York Review of Books. In 1984, he moved to Harper's Magazine as a senior editor. In 1986, he joined The New York Times Magazine, where he specialized in foreign affairs and politics, writing pieces about nuclear weapons and about the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti, among other stories. In 1990, Danner joined the staff of The New Yorker shortly... less