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Mark Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah, thinks Iran shouldn't be on the terror list. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lucinda Franks reflects on her father's days as a Nazi.
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden
Author-journalist-screenwriter Mark Bowden has won many national awards for his writing. He's not only reported for The Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 20 years, but is also a national correspondent for The Atlantic and an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Loyola College of Maryland. His best-selling books include Black Hawk Down and the award-winning Killing Pablo. In his latest, The Best Game Ever, Bowden tells the story of how a single NFL championship game changed the history of American sport.
Lucinda Franks
Lucinda Franks
For her series on the radical group The Weather Underground, journalist Lucinda Franks became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She writes regularly for several publications, including The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and is author of Waiting Out A War, about a Vietnam army deserter, and a novel, Wild Apples. Franks began her career in London with United Press International. Her new memoir, My Father's Secret War, is her recent release.