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Mark Matousek
American journalist
Mark Matousek (born February 5, 1957)[1] is an American memoirist, teacher, and journalist.
Early years
Matousek was born in Los Angeles, California.[1] His father James Matousek disappeared when he was four, leaving his mother in dire straits; his sister Marcia committed suicide in 1978.
Author mark matousek biography
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in dramatic art from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude), a fellowship to Worcester College, Oxford in 1979, and a master's degree in English literature from UCLA in 1981.
Journalism
In 1981 Matousek moved to New York City, working as a stringer covering popular culture for Reuters, then in the letters department of Newsweek magazine. He was hired by Andy Warhol's Interview in 1982, first as a proofreader then as the magazine's first senior editor.[2] Over the next three years, Matousek conducted hundreds of interviews with prominent fig