Mark Feeney (born July 28, 1957) is an author and arts writer for ''

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'' for over four decades. He is the author of two books, ''Nixon at the Movies'' (2004) and ''Nixon and the Silver Screen'' (2012). Feeney is a native of

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Life and work

Feeney graduated from

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in 1979 with a magna cum laude degree in History and Literature. He has worked for the ''Globe'' since then, as a researcher, reporter, reviewer, editor and staff writer at

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. He has taught at

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, (2010)

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, (2007) and

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(2014) universities. During spring 2014 he was an Institute for the Liberal Arts journalism fellow at

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. A finalist for the 1994

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, he won the 2008

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for his "penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting." In 2009, he was a Foster Distinguished Writer at

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. In 2010, he delivered the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art at the

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Awards and recognition

* 1994 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, for his profile of President Nixon * 2010 Alan Miller Fund Visiting Journalist,

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at Orono * 2010 Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecturer in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum * 2009 Foster Distinguished Writer, Pennsylvania State University * 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his command of the visual arts

Publications

*''Nixon at the Movies.'' Chicago, IL:

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, 2004. . *''Nixon and the Silver Screen''. Chicago, IL:

, 2013. .

References

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