Mark Harris (journalist)

After graduating from Yale University in 1985, Harris worked at Entertainment Weekly. He began as a columnist and later became executive editor of the magazine. Since 2008, he has written and released three books. The first, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, an examination of how the American film industry changed during the 1960s, was published in February 2008. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, the author Jim Shepard called it "full of pleasures ... He seems to have talked to virtually everyone who’s still around, and to great effect ... Mark Harris's legwork and intelligence transport us gratefully back to that exhilarating moment when it was all still about to occur." The book was well received, with The New York Times calling it, "a tough-minded, information-packed and irresistibly readable work", and The Washington Post writing that the book "has all the elements of a good movie: fascinating characters, challenges, conflicts and intense action". In 2017, the book was adapted into a three-part Netflix documentary series Five Came Back. ==Personal life==

Harris grew up in a Jewish and Catholic family. He is married to the playwright Tony Kushner. In attendance at the couple's May 2003 commitment ceremony were the director George C. Wolfe, the playwright Larry Kramer, Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer, the actresses Linda Emond and Kathleen Chalfant and, The New York Times reported, "dozens of aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, many of them crying". Theirs was the first same-sex commitment ceremony to appear in the "Vows" column of The New York Times. They live in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts. In summer 2008 (after Massachusetts had legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, but before New York or the U.S. Supreme Court had done so), they were legally married at the city hall in Provincetown. ==Bibliography==