Mark Bowden was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1951. He grew up in Illinois, New York, and Maryland, graduating from Loyola College in Maryland in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in English literature. Since 1979, he has been a staff writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, though he has also written for other publications.
Prior to writing Black Hawk Down, Bowden had never even covered war as a newspaper correspondent. In spite of the author's lack of firsthand war experience, the novel spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Bowden also authored the international bestseller Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw, which tells the story of the hunt for the billionaire Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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