10 Facts About Mark Bowden

1.

Mark Robert Bowden is an American journalist and writer.

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2.

Mark Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War about the 1993 US military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia.

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3.

Mark Bowden is known for Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw about the efforts to take down Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord.

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4.

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

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5.

Mark Bowden published two books prior to these, Doctor Dealer and Bringing the Heat, both of which were based on reporting he originally did for the newspaper.

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6.

Mark Bowden is a 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.

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7.

Mark Bowden has taught journalism and creative writing at Loyola University Maryland, and was Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Delaware from 2013 to 2017.

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8.

Part VII, published in March 2013, said that Mark Bowden, who was not approached about the blog's allegations prior to their posting, had since declined to respond to questions posed by the website's blogger regarding his article.

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Mark Bowden has said that he welcomes questions about it from others.

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10.

Mark Bowden believes that young people are just as drawn to "deep" journalism as other generations of people have been.

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