Mark Danner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mark Danner

American journalist and writer

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1958

Place of Birth: Utica, New York, United States

Profession: writer, war correspondent, author, university teacher, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is an American writer, journalist, and educator.
He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Danner specializes in U.S.
foreign affairs, war and politics, and has written books and articles on Haiti, Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle East, as well as American politics including President Donald Trump.
In 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.As of 2018, Danner holds the Class of 1961 Endowed Chair in Journalism and English at UC Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College. Danner is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, and the Century Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of the Humanities at New York University.
In 2008 he was named the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome, a post he took up again in 2010.
Danner has had a longtime association with the Telluride Film Festival, where he introduces films and conducts interviews; in 2013, he was named resident curator there.