Mark Feeney | |
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Born | (1957-07-28)July 28, 1957 (age 67) |
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 forThe Boston Globe for over four decades.[2] He is the author of two books,Nixon at the Movies (2004) andNixon and the Silver Screen (2012). Feeney is a native ofCambridge, Massachusetts.[2]
Feeney graduated fromHarvard in 1979 with a magna cum laude degree in History and Literature. He has worked for theGlobe since then, as a researcher, reporter, reviewer, editor and staff writer atThe Boston Globe Magazine.[1][2]
He has taught atYale, (2010)Brandeis,Princeton, (2007) andBrown (2014) universities. During spring 2014 he was an Institute for the Liberal Arts journalism fellow atBoston College.[3]
A finalist for the 1994Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, he won the 2008Pulitzer 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 atPenn State University.[5] In 2010, he delivered the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art at theSmithsonian American Art Museum.[6]