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SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Mark Danner is a
writer and reporter who for three decades has written on
politics and
foreign affairs,
focusing on war and conflict. He has covered
Central America,
Haiti,
the
Balkans,
Iraq
and the
Middle East, among many other stories. Danner
holds the Class of 1961 Endowed Chair in Journalism and English at the
University of California, Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at
Bard College.
Among his books are
The Massacre at El Mozote, Torture and Truth, The Secret Way to War, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War and
Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. Danner was a longtime staff writer at
The New Yorker and
is a frequent contributor to
The New York Review of Books.
His work has appeared in
Harper's,
The New York Times,
Aperture, and
many other newspapers and magazines.
He has co-written and helped produce two hour-long documentaries for the
ABC News program
Peter Jennings Reporting, and his work has received, among other honors, a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, the Carey McWilliams Award and an Emmy. In 1999 Danner was named a
MacArthur Fellow. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association, and a resident curator at the Telluride Film Festival. He
speaks and
lectures widely on
foreign policy and America's role in the world. Recently, Danner has covered the election of Donald Trump.