Last Stone (Bowden) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—July 17, 1951
• Where—St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Education—Loyola University of Maryland
• Awards—(see below)
• Currently—lives in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania


Mark Robert Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was adapted as a motion picture of the same name and received two Academy Awards.

Early life
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Bowden attended Loyola University Maryland. At college he was inspired to embark on a career in journalism by reading Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

Career
From 1979 to 2003, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. In that role he researched and wrote Black Hawk Down (1999) and Killing Pablo (2001), both of which appeared as lengthy serials in the newspaper before being published as books. Two previous books, Doctor Dealer (1987) and Bringing the Heat (1994), were also based on reporting he did for the Inquirer.

All told, over the years, Bowden has published more than a dozen books (see below).

Bowden is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has contributed to Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Yorker, Men's Journal, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone.

He has taught journalism and creative writing at his alma mater, Loyola University Maryland, and was also a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Delaware, from 2013–2017.

He lives in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Books
1987 – Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
1994 – Bringing the Heat
1999 – Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
2001 – Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
2002 – Our Finest Day: D-Day, June 6, 1944
2002 – Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million
2006 – Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts
2006 – Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
2008 – The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
2011 – Worm: The First Digital World War
2012 – The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden
2016 – The Three Battles of Wanat and Other True Stories
2017 – Hue 1968
2019 – The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation

Awards
2001 - Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award–Best Book, for Killing Pablo
1997 - Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award–Best Reporting from Abroad, on Battle of Mogadishu
1987 - Sunday Magazine Editors Association–Feature Writing Award
1980 - American Association for the Advancement of Science–Science Writing Award
(Author bio adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 4/15/2019.)