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James Marcus

Title: Deputy Editor

Institution: Harper's Magazine

Discipline: Literature & Writing

Appearances: 1

Notable: Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Magazine; edited 'Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage' (Columbia University Press); 'Faint Music' selected for Best American Essays 2009; MacDowell Fellow; MFA in Fiction from Columbia University; translator of six works from the Italian including Giacomo Casanova's 'The Duel'

Biography

James Marcus is an author, editor, and translator who has held senior editorial roles at Harper's Magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review. His essay 'Faint Music' was selected for Best American Essays 2009, and he is the author of 'Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut,' drawing on his early experience at Amazon.com.

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