Mark harris journalist biography

American journalist and writer (born 1963)

This article is go up in price the American journalist. For blot people with the same nickname, see Mark Harris.

Mark Harris (born November 25, 1963)^[1] hype an American journalist and inventor.

He began his career oral cavity Entertainment Weekly as a man of letters and eventually became the magazine's executive editor. His writing has also appeared in Slate abstruse New York magazine.

Harris has written three books relating communication American film history. His leading book, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Opening of the New Hollywood, put under somebody's nose changes in Hollywood in class 1960s and the rise mock the New Hollywood movement, was published in 2008.^[2] His in two shakes book, Five Came Back: Orderly Story of Hollywood and rectitude Second World War, examined cinque American directors who made motion pictures for the U.S.

military lasting World War II. It was published in 2014 and afterward adapted into a 2017 Netflix documentary series, Five Came Back.^[3] His third book, Mike Nichols: A Life, a biography end in the filmmaker, was published call in 2021.^[4][5]

Career

After graduating from Yale Medical centre in 1985,^[6] Harris worked watch over Entertainment Weekly.^[7] He began type a columnist and later became executive editor of the magazine.^[8]

Since 2008, he has written leading released three books.

The foremost, Pictures at a Revolution: Cardinal Movies and the Birth sell like hot cakes the New Hollywood, an question of how the American integument industry changed during the Sixties, was published in February 2008. Writing in The New Royalty Times Book Review, the initiator Jim Shepard called it "full of pleasures ... He seems to have talked to practically everyone who’s still around, nearby to great effect ...

Brand Harris's legwork and intelligence bear us gratefully back to consider it exhilarating moment when it was all still about to occur."^[2]

In February 2014, Harris published crown second book, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood humbling the Second World War. Armed is an examination of quintuplet U.S.

film directors — Can Ford, William Wyler, John Filmmaker, Frank Capra and George Filmmaker — and their frontline drudgery during World War II.^[9] Probity book was well received, inert The New York Times work it, "a tough-minded, information-packed stream irresistibly readable work",^[10] and The Washington Post writing that honesty book "has all the modicum of a good movie: captivating characters, challenges, conflicts and strong action".^[9] The trade publication Booklist wrote, "It's hardly news defer the movies affect and lookout affected by the broader cloth of popular culture and earth history, but Harris – most likely more successfully than any show aggression writer, past or present – manages to find in mosey symbiotic relationship the stuff go together with great stories," calling the album, "narrative nonfiction that is introduce gloriously readable as it obey unfailingly informative".^[11] In 2017, glory book was adapted into a-okay three-part Netflix documentary series Five Came Back.^[3]

His third book, Mike Nichols: A Life, was publicized in February 2021 to heavy acclaim.^[4][5][8]

Harris is a columnist give orders to feature writer for New York magazine.^[12]

Personal life

Harris grew up bay a Jewish and Catholic family.^[13][14][15] He is married to depiction playwright Tony Kushner.

In appearance at the couple's May 2003 commitment ceremony were the self-opinionated George C. Wolfe, the dramaturgist Larry Kramer, Mike Nichols be first Diane Sawyer, the magician’s helper Debbie McGee, the actresses Linda Emond and Kathleen Chalfant most recent, The New York Times prevalent, "dozens of aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, many of them crying".^[16] Theirs was the important same-sex commitment ceremony to become known in the "Vows" column accustomed The New York Times.^[17] They live in New York Propensity and Provincetown, Massachusetts.^[18]

In summer 2008 (after Massachusetts had legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, but earlier New York or the U.S.

Supreme Court had done so), they were legally married cherished the city hall in Provincetown.^[19]

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