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John Marks, author of The Wall and War Torn, is a producer at CBS for 60 Minutes and a former reporter for US News & World Report, for which he was also Berlin bureau chief. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and holds an MFA from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Marks lives with his wife, the writer Debra Immergut, his son, Joe, and his dog Ruby in Brooklyn, New York. His first novel, The Wall, was a New York Times Notable Book.

He writes a regular book column for www.centropa.org.