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Mark Danner was born on Nov. 10, 1958 in Utica, NY.

He attended John F. Hughes and Utica Free Academy, where he served as co-editor of The Corridors newspaper.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in June of 1981 with a degree in "Modern Literature and Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary honors concentration that combined comparative literature, philosophy and art history," according to his Web site, markdanner.com.

Danner is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor at the Berkeley School of Journalism.

He writes about foreign affairs and American politics, including Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, Europe and the Middle East.

Danner has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review, ABC, Aperture Magazine, Harper's Magazine, NPR, PBS and World Policy Journal.

He has written three books: "Torture and Truth," "The Road to Illegitimacy" and "The Massacre at El Mozote," as well as the introduction to Larry Towell's "El Salvador."

Danner speaks fluent French, serviceable Spanish and some German.

-Profile by Jennifer L. Blanchard

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