Editing Mark Danner (section)

{{short description|American writer, journalist, and educator}}
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| image         = Mark Danner.jpg
| caption       = Danner in the garden of his New York apartment
| name          = Mark Danner
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1958|11|10}}
| birth_place   = [[Utica, New York]], US
| nationality   = American
| alma_mater    = [[Harvard University]]
| occupation    = Author, journalist, professor
| organizations = [[UC Berkeley]]<br>[[Bard College]]<br>[[The New Yorker]]<br>[[The New York Review of Books]]
| website       = {{url|markdanner.com}}
}}

'''Mark David Danner''' (born November 10, 1958) is an American writer, journalist, and educator. He is a former staff writer for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and frequent contributor to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs, war and politics, and has written books and articles on [[Haiti]], Central America, the former [[Yugoslavia]], and the Middle East, as well as on American politics, covering every presidential election since 2000. In 1999, he was named a [[MacArthur Fellow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142725/k.2948/Fellows_List__July_1999.htm|title=Fellows List - July 1999 - MacArthur Foundation|date=September 1, 2006|access-date=December 16, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901105518/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142725/k.2948/Fellows_List__July_1999.htm|archive-date=September 1, 2006|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

{{As of|2018}}, Danner holds the Class of 1961 Distinguished Chair in Undergraduate Education at [[UC Berkeley]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Chuck Harris |url=http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/danner/ |title=Faculty–UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism |website=Journalism.berkeley.edu |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref> and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at [[Bard College]].

Danner is a member of the Berkeley Collegium, the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], the [[World Affairs Councils of America|World Affairs Council]] of Northern California, and the [[Century Association]], and is a fellow of the Institute of the Humanities at [[New York University]]. In 2008 he was named the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the [[American Academy in Rome]], a post he took up again in 2010. Danner has had a longtime association with the [[Telluride Film Festival]], where he introduces films and conducts interviews; in 2013, he was named resident curator there.<ref>{{cite web |last=Danner |first=Mark |title=Bio|url=http://www.markdanner.com|publisher=markdanner.com|access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref>