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'''Marie Brenner''' is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair'' (magazine)]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/books/review/Panero-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=brenner&st=nyt&oref=slogin|title=Brother, Who Art Thou?|author= [[James Panero|Panero, James]] |publisher=The New York Times}}</ref> She has also written for New York Magazine, The New Yorker and The Boston Herald<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/bios/bio_brenner|title=Marie Brenner|publisher=Vanity Fair}}</ref> and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270052298/page/1165270111167/simplepage.htm|title=The George T. Delacorte Center|publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>. Her ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair'' (magazine)]]'' article on tobacco insider [[Jeffrey Wigand]], ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (article)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', inspired the 1999 movie ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]'', starring [[Russell Crowe]] and [[Al Pacino]]. |
'''Marie Brenner''' is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair'' (magazine)]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/books/review/Panero-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=brenner&st=nyt&oref=slogin|title=Brother, Who Art Thou?|author= [[James Panero|Panero, James]] |publisher=The New York Times}}</ref> She has also written for New York Magazine, The New Yorker and The Boston Herald<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/bios/bio_brenner|title=Marie Brenner|publisher=Vanity Fair}}</ref> and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270052298/page/1165270111167/simplepage.htm|title=The George T. Delacorte Center|publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>. Her ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|''Vanity Fair'' (magazine)]]'' article on tobacco insider [[Jeffrey Wigand]], ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (article)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', inspired the 1999 movie ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]'', starring [[Russell Crowe]] and [[Al Pacino]]. |
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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 in San Antonio, TX to Milton and Thelma Brenner. She grew up in San Antonio and moved to New York in 1970.
Her father was chairman of Solo Serve Corporation, a chain of Texas discount stores started by her grandfather Isidor Brenner, who emigrated from Mexico to Texas during the Mexican Revolution. [4].
She is the niece of Anita Brenner, anthropologist and author of Idols Behind Alters, published in 1929. Anita was a member of the circle of Mexican muralists and artists, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, who flourished in Mexico in the 1920’s and was widely credited with helping to introduce their work in the United States. [5] One of the first women to be a regular contributor to The New York Times, Anita Brenner once interviewed Leon Trotsky, the deposed leader of the Russian Revolution and was an authority on Mexico and Latin American affairs.
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]
Career
Brenner earned a B.F.A. from the University of Texas and received an M.A. from New York University Film School. [7] She was the first female baseball columnist covering the American League, traveling with the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Herald during the 1979 season. [8]
Brenner worked as a contributing editor for New York (magazine) from 1980-1984, and covered the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. [9]
Brenner joined Vanity Fair (magazine) as a special correspondent in 1984. She left the magazine in 1992 to become a staff writer at The New Yorker (magazine), returning to Vanity Fair (magazine) in 1995 as writer-at-large.[10]
Her explosive 1996 article for Vanity Fair (magazine) on Jeffrey Wigand and the tobacco wars, titled "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [11] was made into the 1999 feature film "The Insider," starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, and directed by Michael Mann. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. [12]
Brenner's 2002 Vanity Fair (magazine) article, "The Enron Wars," delving into the investigation into the Enron scandals made national news when Senator Peter Fitzgerald used it to question witnesses testifying before a senate committee. [13]
An archive of Brenner's work is stored at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. [14]
In 2009, the Manhattan Theater Club announced that it had commissioned Alfred Uhry to adapt her best-selling memoir Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found for the stage. [15]
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) - ^ Yabroff, Jennie. "Brothers and Sisters". Newsweek.
- ^ "Marie Brenner Is Married to Ernest H. Pomerantz". The New York Times.
- ^ "Press Release:Marie Brenner to Speak at Friends of the libraries' Annual Meeting". Boston University.
- ^ Marie Brenner. "The Wedding of the Century". New York Magazine.
- ^ "Marie Brenner". Vanity Fair.
- ^ ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"". Vanity Fair.
- ^ "The Insider". IMDB.com.
- ^ "Enron Executives Testify Before Senate Commerce Committee". CNN.com.
- ^ "Marie Brenner: Insider Investigations". Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
- ^ Kenneth Jones. "Uhry Will Adapt Brenner's Memoir for MTC; Meadow to Direct". Playbill.
External Links
- Marie Brenner website
- Marie Brenner Talk at Google in Mountain View, CA
- Michiko Kakutani review for The New York Times
- Interview with Lesley Stahl for WowOWow.com
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