Length-35 minutes, 3 seconds
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Dave Marcus, author of What It Takes Me Through: Why Teenagers Get In Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
Dave Marcus
Dave Marcus has had an eclectic career that has taken him from dodging mortar fire in Africa to teaching Huckleberry Finn in a classroom in rural Massachusetts. Marcus shared a Pulitzer Prize, spent a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and worked as a high school teacher before publishing a book about American teenagers.
In two decades as a staff member of the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, and the Miami Herald, Marcus was a columnist, roving national reporter, and foreign correspondent. He covered the breakup of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military invasion of Panama, the Gulf War, the return of Hong Kong to China, and civil wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Angola, and Soviet Georgia. Returning to domestic affairs, he covered education for U.S. News & World Report. His freelance articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, and the New York Times. He has been a guest on NPR’s Morning Edition and Televisa’s Spanish-language show Contrapunto (Counterpoint).
For his work on a series about violence against women around the world, Marcus shared the top honor in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Earlier, he was part of a team of finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism, for a series called “Hidden Wars. Visit his website www.davemarcus.com
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