Jane Mayer

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Jane Mayer (born 1955 in New York City) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine since 1995. [ [http://www.newyorker.com/main/contributors/contribs_lr?contribs_lr "The New Yorker" - Contributors] ] In recent years, she has written extensive articles for that publication on Dick Cheney, the bin Laden family, and the US government's controversial policy of extraordinary rendition.

Education

Mayer is a 1973 graduate of Fieldston and a 1977 graduate of Yale University, where she was a stringer for "Time" magazine. She continued her studies at Oxford University. She also attended the Bedales School in England as an exchange student in 1972-1973.

Career

Mayer was a metropolitan reporter for the now-defunct "Washington Star", then joined "The Wall Street Journal" in 1982.

Mayer has also contributed to the "New York Review of Books" and "American Prospect" and co-authored two books—"Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas" (1994) (written with Jill Abramson), a study of the controversy-laden nomination and appointment of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court, and "Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988" (1989) (written with Doyle McManus), an account of Ronald Reagan's second term in the White House. Her "The Dark Side" (2008) addresses the origins, legal justifications, and possible war crimes liability, of the use of interrogation techniques to break down detainees' resistance and the subsequent deaths of detainees under such interrogation as applied by the CIA. She is the granddaughter of American historian Allan Nevins. [Scott Horton, "Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side" Harpers online, July 14, 2008 http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment#hbc-90003234] [Interviewed July 18, 2008 on Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/18/the_dark_side_jane_mayer_on]

Bibliography

* (2008) ISBN 0385526393

As co-author

* With Doyle McManus, "Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984–1988" (1989) ISBN 0-395-45185-X
* With Jill Abramson, "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas" (1994) ISBN 0-395-63318-4

Notes

External links

* [http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/13/mayer-j.html "Clarence Thomas's Revenge"] ("American Prospect", July 30, 2001)
* [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?011112fa_FACT3 The House of bin Laden: A family's, and a nation's, divided loyalties"] "The New Yorker", November 12, 2001)
* [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/040216fa_fact "Contract Sport: What did the Vice-President do for Halliburton?"] "The New Yorker", February 16/23, 2004)
* [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6 "Outsourcing Torture: The secret history of America’s 'extraordinary rendition'" program] ("The New Yorker", February 14, 2005)
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2005/2/17/outsourcing_torture_the_secret_history_of Interview about Outsourcing Torture] on "Democracy Now," February 17, 2005 (video, audio, and print transcript)
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/18/the_dark_side_jane_mayer_on Hour-long interview about "The Dark Side"] on "Democracy Now," July 18, 2008 (video, audio, and print transcript)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D13TSc4nTCI Interview on Authors@Google YouTube, August 8, 2008]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J19uEOrO7go Hour long interview on Conversation with History with Harry Kreisler]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/2220 Jane Mayer archive] from "The New York Review of Books"