Mark Feeney | |
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| Born | July 28, 1957 |
| Education | Harvard University (AB) |
| Occupation(s) | Arts writer, author |
| Employer | The Boston Globe |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
Mark Feeney (born July 28, 1957) [1] is an author and arts writer for The Boston Globe for over four decades. [2] He is the author of two books, Nixon at the Movies (2004) and Nixon and the Silver Screen (2012). Feeney is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2]
Feeney graduated from Harvard in 1979 with a magna cum laude degree in History and Literature. He has worked for the Globe since then, as a researcher, reporter, reviewer, editor and staff writer at The Boston Globe Magazine. [1] [2]
He has taught at Yale, (2010) Brandeis, Princeton, (2007) and Brown (2014) universities. During spring 2014 he was an Institute for the Liberal Arts journalism fellow at Boston College. [3]
A finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting." [1] [4] In 2009, he was a Foster Distinguished Writer at Penn State University. [5] In 2010, he delivered the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [6]
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