Editing Mark Danner (section)

===Early years===
After leaving Harvard, Danner joined the staff of ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', where he worked as an assistant to editor [[Robert B. Silvers]] from 1981 to 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68496/ |title=The Most Powerful People in New York - Five Prominent Locals Whose Underlings Have Gone on to Big Things |website=Nymag.com |date=2010-09-26 |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref>  In 1984, he moved to ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' as a senior editor. In 1986, he joined ''[[The New York Times|The New York Times Magazine]]'', where he specialized in foreign affairs and politics, writing pieces about nuclear weapons and about the fall of the [[Jean-Claude Duvalier|Duvalier]] dictatorship in Haiti, among other stories.