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- Hi there:
- I can't deny I'm not neutral.. I'm Mark Patinkin, a longtime journalist, and am editing my own Wiki bio page... but doing so because it had been rather thin in the past, and I thought it merited a bit more detail, especially now that I have come out with a new book. So here again is my just-edited version of my bio submitted for your approval. Thank you.
- Mark Patinkin is an American author and one of the country's longest-serving newspaper columnists. The Providence Journal has featured his column for 45 years. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for international reporting, having covered world events in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and India, among other places. While writing about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, he was arrested by the Romanian secret police for attempting to interview a dissident and expelled from the country, weeks before the regime there fell. He has won three New England Emmy awards for television commentaries for Rhode Island's ABC affiliate. He has received honorary degrees from Rhode Island College and Johnson and Wales University. He is the author of several books, including "The Holy Land at War: A Journey Through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza", published in 2024. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Mandy Patinkin, the American actor, is his cousin. Don Patinkin (1922–1995), the economist, was his second cousin. Sheldon Patinkin, author, teacher, director, and one of the founding fathers of The Second City, was his second cousin.
- Partial bibliography MarkPatinkin (talk) 16:50, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oops... I'm repeating this message because I forgot the tildes...
- Hi there:
- I can't deny I'm not neutral.. I'm Mark Patinkin, a longtime journalist, and am editing my own Wiki bio page... but doing so because it had been rather thin in the past, and I thought it merited a bit more detail, especially now that I have come out with a new book. So here again is my just-edited version of my bio submitted for your approval. Thank you.
- Mark Patinkin is an American author and one of the country's longest-serving newspaper columnists. The Providence Journal has featured his column for 45 years. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for international reporting, having covered world events in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and India, among other places. While writing about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, he was arrested by the Romanian secret police for attempting to interview a dissident and expelled from the country, weeks before the regime there fell. He has won three New England Emmy awards for television commentaries for Rhode Island's ABC affiliate. He has received honorary degrees from Rhode Island College and Johnson and Wales University. He is the author of several books, including "The Holy Land at War: A Journey Through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza", published in 2024. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Mandy Patinkin, the American actor, is his cousin. Don Patinkin (1922–1995), the economist, was his second cousin. Sheldon Patinkin, author, teacher, director, and one of the founding fathers of The Second City, was his second cousin.
- MarkPatinkin (talk) 16:53, 11 August 2024 (UTC)