Mark Feeney


Mark Feeney is an arts writer for The Boston Globe. He is the author of the book Nixon at the Movies.

Life and work

Feeney graduated from Harvard in 1979 and has worked for the Globe since then, as a researcher, reporter, reviewer, and editor.
He has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Princeton, and Brown universities. During spring 2014 he was an Institute for the Liberal Arts journalism fellow at Boston College.
A finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting." In 2009, he was a Foster Distinguished Writer at Penn State University. In 2010, he delivered the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Publications