# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-bowden
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:47:00.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-bowden"
name: "Mark Bowden"
slug: "mark-bowden"
description: "Mark Bowden  is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards."
tagline: "American journalist and writer (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2018-us-nationalbookfestival-mark-bowden.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.75
  momentum:             0.2952815829528158
  historical:           12.521752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0100736/"
    handle:    "nm0100736"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A4%DA%88%D9%86"
    title: "مارک باؤڈن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "مارك بودن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "مارك بودن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bowden"
    title: "Mark Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bowden"
    title: "Mark Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "مارک بادن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bowden"
    title: "Mark Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bowden"
    title: "Mark Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A6%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3"
    title: "マーク・ボウデン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bowden"
    title: "Mark Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Боуден, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bowden"
    title: "Mark Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bowden"
    title: "Mark Bowden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Марк Бовден"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2273582"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump