1. Marc Myers was born on September 4,1956 and is an American journalist, author of five books and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music, the arts and celebrities.
10 Facts About Marc Myers
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Marc Myers studied journalism at Northeastern University and US history at Columbia University.
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Marc Myers began his writing career at The New York Times in the late 1970s as a college intern, joining the newspaper full-time in 1980 in the sports department.
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Since June 2010, Marc Myers has written for The Wall Street Journal as a contributor on music and the arts, specifically rock, soul and jazz.
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Marc Myers has interviewed more than 1,000 leading artists, musicians and celebrities for the paper.
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Marc Myers writes the weekly "House Call" column for the Mansion section and a monthly column for the Arts section on albums that changed music history.
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Marc Myers has written for the Weekend Review and Off Duty sections of the paper.
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Since JazzWaxs launch in August 2007, Marc Myers has posted six days a week and has conducted more than 300 multi-part interviews with jazz legends.
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Marc Myers's mother, Bernice Myers, was a children's book artist and illustrator who died in 2021.
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Marc Myers's father was Lou Myers, a commercial illustrator, cartoonist and writer who died in 2005.