Mark Danner

Mark Danner is a writer, journalist and professor who specializes in foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans and Iraq, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, and about violations of human rights during that time. His books include The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004), and The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994). Danner was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. Among numerous honors, Danner has received a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, an Emmy, and the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association. He has been named a MacArthur Fellow and in 2008 was named the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome. He is also Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and Humanities at Bard College. Mark Danner divides his time between San Francisco and New York.

The Truth of El Mozote by Mark Danner

Books, writings

Torture and Truth America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror, New York Review Books, 2004
The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Vote Re-Count, Melville House Publishing, 2004
The Secret Way To War: The Downing Street Memo
the Iraq War's Buried History, New York Review Books, 2006

[1994] The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War by Mark Danner