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Mark Bowden


Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States
July 17, 1951

Genre
Nonfiction, Contemporary, History


Mark Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards.
Bowden is also known for the books Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001), about the efforts to take down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and Hue 1968, an account of the Battle of Huế.

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Guests of the Ayatollah: Th...
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The Last Stone
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Worm: The First Digital Wor...
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Doctor Dealer: The Rise and...
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“It's what you do right now that makes a difference.”
― Mark Bowden
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“These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.”
― Mark Bowden, Worm: The First Digital World War
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“No one gets left behind, you know that.”
― Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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