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 The Boston Globe Magazine. He has taught at

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, (2010) Brandeis, Princeton, (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 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism 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. .

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