Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden, author of HUE 1968, is the author of thirteen books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down— “one of the finest combat reconstructions in the annals of warfare,” according to the Baltimore Sun. It has sold over 4 million copies. Bowden reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and other magazines. He is also the writer in residence at the University of Delaware. His most recent book is The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other True Stories. Black Hawk Down was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction; his Killing Pablo won the Overseas Press Club’s 2001 Cornelius Ryan Award as the book of the year; and his Guests of the Ayatollah was listed by Newsweek as one of “The 50 Best Books for Our Times.” Bowden has received the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award and the International Thriller Writers’ True Thriller Award for lifetime achievement.