Mark Bowden
American journalist and author
Mark Bowden is an American journalist and writer, best known for Black Hawk Down and for Hue 1968, his account of the Battle of Huế.
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American Born 1951 in St. Louis, United States
About Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1951. He spent twenty years reporting for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and his articles have also appeared in Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Rolling Stone. He served as a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has contributed to it for many years. His bestselling Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, published in 1999, tells of a US military raid carried out in Mogadishu in 1993. A film based on it received two Academy Awards. Bowden also wrote Killing Pablo, about the hunt for the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and Guests of the Ayatollah. Hue 1968 is his account of the Battle of Huế.