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Marie Harriet Brenner was born on December 15, 1949 in San Antonio, TX to Milton and Thelma Brenner. Her father ran the Solo Serve department store in San Antonio founded by her grandfather, Isidor Brenner. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/MYSA052508_1H_book_brenner_2b2606f_html.html|title=Memoir traces author's complicated relationship with older brother|author= [[Steve Bennett|Bennett, Steve]] |publisher=San Antonio Express-News}}</ref>. Her aunt was Anita Brenner, author of children's literature and books on Mexican art and history. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00186.xml|title=Anita Brenner: |
Marie Harriet Brenner was born on December 15, 1949 in San Antonio, TX to Milton and Thelma Brenner. Her father ran the Solo Serve department store in San Antonio founded by her grandfather, Isidor Brenner. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/MYSA052508_1H_book_brenner_2b2606f_html.html|title=Memoir traces author's complicated relationship with older brother|author= [[Steve Bennett|Bennett, Steve]] |publisher=San Antonio Express-News}}</ref>. Her aunt was Anita Brenner, author of children's literature and books on Mexican art and history. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00186.xml|title=Anita Brenner: |
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A Preliminary Inventory of Her Papers|publisher=Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center}}</ref> She had an older brother Carl, a lawyer turned apple farmer who was the focus of her memoir, ''Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found'' <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/141492?tid=relatedcl|title=Brothers and Sisters|author=[[Jennie Yabroff |
A Preliminary Inventory of Her Papers|publisher=Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center}}</ref> She had an older brother Carl, a lawyer turned apple farmer who was the focus of her memoir, ''Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found'' <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/141492?tid=relatedcl|title=Brothers and Sisters|author=[[Jennie Yabroff]]|publisher=Newsweek}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:58, 9 June 2009
Marie Brenner is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair (magazine).[1] She has also written for New York Magazine, The New Yorker and The Boston Herald[2] and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism[3]. Her Vanity Fair (magazine) article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, The Man Who Knew Too Much, inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino.
Personal
Marie Harriet Brenner was born on December 15, 1949 in San Antonio, TX to Milton and Thelma Brenner. Her father ran the Solo Serve department store in San Antonio founded by her grandfather, Isidor Brenner. [4]. Her aunt was Anita Brenner, author of children's literature and books on Mexican art and history. [5] She had an older brother Carl, a lawyer turned apple farmer who was the focus of her memoir, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found [6]
Bibliography
- Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner (2008)
- Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women (2000)
- House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville (1988)
- Intimate Distance (1983)
- Going Hollywood: An Insider's Look at Power and Pretense in the Movie Business (1978)
- Tell Me Everything (1976)
References
- ^ Panero, James. "Brother, Who Art Thou?". The New York Times.
- ^ "Marie Brenner". Vanity Fair.
- ^ "The George T. Delacorte Center". Columbia University.
- ^ Bennett, Steve. "Memoir traces author's complicated relationship with older brother". San Antonio Express-News.
- ^ "Anita Brenner: A Preliminary Inventory of Her Papers". Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
{{cite web}}: line feed character in|title=at position 15 (help) - ^ Jennie Yabroff. "Brothers and Sisters". Newsweek.
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