Marie Harriet Brenner was born on December 15,1949 and is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair.
13 Facts About Marie Brenner
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Marie Brenner has written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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Marie Brenner was the first female baseball columnist covering the American League, traveling with the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Herald during the 1979 season.
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Marie Brenner worked as a contributing editor for New York magazine from 1980 to 1984, and covered the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
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Marie Brenner joined Vanity Fair as a special correspondent in 1984.
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Marie Brenner left the magazine in 1992 to become a staff writer at The New Yorker, returning to Vanity Fair in 1995 as writer-at-large.
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In 2012, Brenner penned a piece entitled "Marie Colvin's Private War", for Vanity Fair.
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An archive of Marie Brenner's work is stored at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
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Marie Brenner grew up in San Antonio and moved to New York City in 1970.
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Marie Brenner's father was chairman of Solo Serve Corporation, a chain of Texas discount stores started by her grandfather Isidor Brenner.
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Marie Brenner married Paula, a Jewish emigrant from Riga, Latvia, by way of Chicago.
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Marie Brenner is the niece of Anita Brenner, anthropologist, author, and one of the first women to be a regular contributor to The New York Times.
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Marie Brenner had an older brother Carl, a lawyer turned apple farmer who was the focus of her memoir, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found.