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Mark Bowden

マーク・ボウデン　/　まーく・ぼうでん

American writer

July 17, 1951 (age 74)　・　St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Missouri
writer
historian
screenwriter

My Take

Mark Bowden earns my admiration as a journalist who turned reporting into something cinematic without faking it. Black Hawk Down is the obvious anchor, a Mogadishu raid rebuilt minute by minute into a book that became an Oscar-winning film, and that's reconstruction done through real legwork, not invention. His long run at The Atlantic tells me he's a magazine writer at heart, someone who lives in the long form. Following Black Hawk Down with The Finish, on the killing of Osama bin Laden, shows a consistent beat: modern American warfare, told from the ground up. I trust writers who chase the granular detail over the easy headline.

Overview

Mark Bowden (; born 1951) is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Mark Bowden
Name (Japanese): マーク・ボウデン
Reading: まーく・ぼうでん
Born: July 17, 1951 (age 74)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Cancer / Rabbit
Origin: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: writer / historian / screenwriter / journalist / editor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Dulaney High School
University: Loyola University Maryland

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Black Hawk Down	—
Notable work	The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A6%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3

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