Marc Wortman

Marc Wortman is a freelance journalist and the author of The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power (2006) and The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta (2009), both published by PublicAffairs Books. Recipient of Sigma Delta Chi and CASE feature writing awards, Marc has written feature articles on a wide range of subjects for Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Technology Review, and other popular and specialized publications. He is a contributing writer for Start-Up. Along the way, he was also a columnist for the New Haven Register and an editor at the Yale Alumni Magazine. He has spoken to audiences around the country and appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV, CPTV, GPB, and many other radio and television outlets. Marc was born in St. Louis and grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. Following college at Brown University, he received a doctorate from Princeton University. He lives in New Haven.