Marie Brenner

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Marie Brenner
Marie Brenner
Born
Marie Harriet Brenner

(1949-12-15) December 15, 1949 (age 74)
San Antonio, Texas
Occupation(s)Author, investigative journalist
Spouses
Jonathan Schwartz
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(m. 1979; div. 1984)​
Ernest Harold Pomerantz
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(m. 1985)​
Children1
RelativesAnita Brenner (aunt)

Marie Harriet Brenner (born December 15, 1949) is an American author,

investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair.[1] She has also written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald[2] and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.[3] Her 1996 Vanity Fair article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. Her February 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Tragedy: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" partially inspired the 2019 film Richard Jewell directed by Clint Eastwood.[4]

Career

Brenner earned a

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.[7]

Brenner joined

Michael Mann. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[9]

In 2012, Brenner penned a piece entitled "Marie Colvin's Private War", for Vanity Fair. This article was later adapted into the film A Private War, directed by first time director, Matthew Heineman, and starring Academy Award nominated actress, Rosamund Pike. Pike was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, while Heineman was recognized with a nomination from the Directors Guild of America with a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director.

In 1997, she wrote an article for Vanity Fair on

Olympic Park bombing in 1996. Titled "American Tragedy: The Ballad of Richard Jewell", it was, along with the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen, the basis of the 2019 film Richard Jewell.[4][10][11][12]

Brenner's 2002 Vanity Fair article, "The Enron Wars," delving into the investigation into the Enron scandals, made national news when Senator Peter Fitzgerald used it to question witnesses testifying before a senate committee.[13]

In 2009, the

Manhattan Theater Club announced that it had commissioned Alfred Uhry to adapt Brenner's memoir Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found for the stage.[14]

In 2020, Brenner was granted 18-month access to the New York Presbyterian hospital, depicted in her book The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines, published in 2022.[15]

An archive of Brenner's work is stored at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.[16]

Incident with Donald Trump

During a black-tie gala at Tavern on the Green in 1991, Donald Trump poured a glass of wine down Brenner's suit because she had written an unflattering piece about him earlier that year.[17]

Personal life

Brenner was born December 15, 1949, in

San Antonio, Texas
, to Milton Conrad Brenner and Thelma (Long) Brenner. She grew up in San Antonio and moved to New York City in 1970.

Her father was chairman of Solo Serve Corporation, a chain of

Jewish emigrant to Texas from the Duchy of Kurland (in modern Latvia), in 1892. He married Paula, a Jewish emigrant from Riga, Latvia, by way of Chicago.[18] The couple moved their family back and forth between Mexico and Texas during the first years of the Mexican Revolution,[19] finally settling the family in San Antonio, in 1916.[20]

She is the niece of Anita Brenner, anthropologist, author, and one of the first women to be a regular contributor to The New York Times. She had an older brother Carl, a lawyer turned apple farmer who was the focus of her memoir, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found. [21]

Bibliography

  • The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines, New York: Flatiron Books. 2022. ISBN 9781250805737.
  • A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels and Renegades, London: Simon & Schuster, UK Ltd. 2018.
    OCLC 1040537511[22][23]
  • Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found, New York: Picador, 2008.
    OCLC 1084679418
  • Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000.
    OCLC 47051999
  • House of Dreams: The Collapse of an American Dynasty, London: Joseph, 1988.
    OCLC 9672879
  • Intimate Distance, New York: William Morrow and Co., 1983.
    OCLC 1084921214
  • Going Hollywood: An Insider's Look at Power and Pretense in the Movie Business, New York: Delacorte Press, 1978.
    OCLC 3186647
  • Tell Me Everything, New York: New American Library, 1976.
    OCLC 5898486

References

  1. ^ Panero, James (2008-06-29). "Brother, Who Art Thou?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
  2. ^ a b "Marie Brenner". Vanity Fair.
  3. ^ "The George T. Delacorte Center". Columbia University.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ a b Alas, Mert. "AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: The Ballad of RICHARD JEWELL | Vanity Fair | February 1997". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  5. ^ "Marie Brenner Is Married to Ernest H. Pomerantz". The New York Times. 1985-04-15. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
  6. ^ "Press Release: Marie Brenner to Speak at Friends of the libraries' Annual Meeting". Boston University. Archived from the original on 2006-09-11.
  7. ^ Marie Brenner (1981-08-03). "The Wedding of the Century". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  8. ^ "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
  9. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  10. ^ Climek, Chris. "Review: 'Richard Jewell' Clears One Name While Smearing Another". NPR. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  11. ISBN 1683355245
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  12. ^ Marc Tracy (12 December 2019). "Clint Eastwood's 'Richard Jewell' Is at the Center of a Media Storm". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  13. ^ "Enron Executives Testify Before Senate Commerce Committee". CNN.com. 2001-02-07. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
  14. ^ Kenneth Jones. "Uhry Will Adapt Brenner's Memoir for MTC; Meadow to Direct". Playbill.
  15. ^ "Review: "The Desperate Hours," Marie Brenner". The New York Times. 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  16. ^ "Marie Brenner: Insider Investigations". Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. Archived from the original on 2008-07-24.
  17. ISBN 978-1627791366
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  18. ISBN 9780374173524
  19. ^ Martinez del Campo, Lynda (August 3, 2013). "Anita Brenner: A Bridge Between Nations and Religions". Mexican Museums and Mavens. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  20. ^ Villela, Khristaan D. (9 March 2012). "Jazz Age Chronicles: Anita Brenner on Mexico's Avant-Garde Art and Artists." Review of Avant-Garde Art and Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner Journals of the Roaring Twenties, ed. Susanna Glusker". Pasatiempo: 18–23. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  21. ^ Jennie Yabroff. "Brothers and Sisters". Newsweek.
  22. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  23. ^ "a private war marie colvin - Yahoo Search Results". search.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-05-13.

Further reading

  • Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Marie Brenner. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (Trinity University Press, 2008).

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