Mark Bowden

Mark Bowden
Bowden in 2018
Born	1951 (age 72–73) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Education	Loyola University Maryland (B.A.)
Notable works	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War; Hue 1968

Mark Bowden (/ˈbaʊdən/; born 1951)^[1] is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. 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 that received two Academy Awards.

Bowden is also known for Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001) about the efforts to take down Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord, and for "Hue 1968," an account of the most significant battle of the Vietnam War.