Mark Seal is an American journalist and author. Seal worked as a journalist in Texas before becoming a freelance magazine writer in 1984, a contributing editor at ''
Vanity Fair'' since 2003, and has written and co-written about 15 books.
[Mark Seal]
bio page at ''Vanity Fair''
Seal's magazine writings have appeared in ''Esquire'', ''Playboy'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Condé Nast Traveler'', ''Golf Digest'', ''Texas Monthly'', ''InStyle'', ''Town & Country'', ''Time'', and ''The New York Times''.
[ Prior to 1984 when Seal became a freelance magazine writer, he worked as a reporter at several Texas newspapers, including the '']Houston Chronicle
The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. , it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. With i ...
'' and ''The Dallas Morning News
''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the '' Galvest ...
''.[
He has collaborated on more than 15 non-fiction books, including Alex Spanos's ''Sharing the Wealth'', ]Bo Derek
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's ''Riding Lessons'', and Jerry Speziale's ''Without a Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization''.[
Seal has written a number of books including ''Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa'' (2009), a biography of the adventurous life of African wildlife photographer ]Joan Root Joan Root (18 January 1936 – 13 January 2006) was a Kenyan conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker.
With her film-maker husband, Alan Root she made a series of acclaimed wildlife films. The couple divorced in 1981 and ...
.[ His 2011 book, ''The Man in the Rockefeller Suit'', is about ]Christian Gerhartsreiter
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, the serial imposter who posed as a member of the Rockefeller family in what has been described as one of the longest scams in history. The book is in preliminary development to be made into a movie by Fox Searchlight
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, directed by Walter Salles
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Early life
Salles was born on 12 April 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He is the son of Brazi ...
and produced by Donald De Line
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.
Bibliography
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Essays and reporting
* Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp
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.
See also
*Paul Lir Alexander
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Biography
Alexander was born in Santa Catarina and joined military service i ...
References
External links
Articles by Mark Seal
at ''Vanity Fair''
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Living people
American male journalists
The Dallas Morning News people
Houston Chronicle people
Vanity Fair (magazine) people
Year of birth missing (living people)