Mark Bowden Biography

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Mark Robert Bowden (II) (born July 17, 1951) is an accomplished American writer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 1973 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland, Bowden has been a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer since 1979. He has won numerous awards and has written for Men's Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone. Bowden received international recognition for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, which was turned into a 2001 film directed by Ridley Scott.

Bowden's son Aaron is also a writer.

Works

Books

• Bringing the Heat (1994; ISBN 0-679-42841-0)
  
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999; ISBN 0-87113-738-0)
  
• Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire (2000; ISBN 0-8021-3757-1)
  
• Unravelling the Landscape (2000; ISBN 0-7524-1447-X)
  
• Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001; ISBN 0-87113-783-6)
  
• Our Finest Day : D-Day, June 6, 1944 (2002; ISBN 0-8118-3050-0)
  
• Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million (2002; ISBN 0-87113-859-X)
  
• Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency by William J. Daugherty (Foreword by Bowden) (2004; ISBN 0-8131-2334-8)
  
• Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad (by David Zucchino) (2005; ISBN 0-87113-911-1)
  
• Road Work : Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts (2006; ISBN 0-87113-876-X)
  
• Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (2006; ISBN 0-87113-925-1)
  

Filmography

• Money for Nothing (1993) (based on his article "The Joey Coyle Story")
  
• Black Hawk Down (2001)
  
• The True Story of Killing Pablo (2002) (TV)
  
• Essence of Combat: Making Black Hawk Down, The (2003) (video)
  
• The True Story of Black Hawk Down (2003) (TV)
  
• Killing Pablo (2005)
  
• Guests of the Ayatollah (2006) (TV)
  

Awards

• Finalist, National Book Award, 1999 (for Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War)
  
• Feature writing award from Sunday Magazine Editors Association, 1987 (for "Finder's Keeper's")
  
• Finalist, best newspaper writing, American Society Newspaper Editors, 1979 (for "Life in the Projects")
  
• Science writing award from American Association for Advancement of Science, 1980
  

Trivia

• He is the cousin of Florida State Seminoles football coach Bobby Bowden.
  

External links

• Mark Bowden joins the discussion, The Question of Torture at the Carnegie Council
  
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• Philly.com Biography: Mark Bowden
  
• Atlantic Monthly Biography
  

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