Marie Brenner Biography
Marie Brenner is an American investigative journalist, book author and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair magazine. Brenner has also written for other productions like The New Yorker, New York (a biweekly magazine) and the Boston Herald as well as taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Brenner’s work on an article she wrote for Vanity Fair, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” inspired the writing of a film in 1999, The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. The article was on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand.
Marie Brenner Age
Brenner is 69 years old as of 2018. She was born as Marie Harriet Brenner in San Antonio, Texas on 15th December 1949.
Marie Brenner Family – Parents
Marie Harriet Brenner was born and raised by Milton Conrad Brenner and Thelma Long Brenner. They lived in San Antonio before moving to New York City in 1970. Brenner had an older brother by the name Carl, a lawyer turned apple farmer who was the focus of her memoir, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found. Anthropologist, and author Anita Brenner, who was also one of the first women to be a regular contributor to The New York Times is Marie’s aunt.
Brenner’s grandfather was known as Isidor Brenner, the founder of Solo Serve Corporation, a chain of Texas discount stores. He was a Jewish emigrant to Texas from modern Latvia who was born in 1872. He also married an emigrant from Riga and she was known as Paula. They moved a lot during the Mexican Revolution and finally settled in San Antonio, Texas in 1916. Marie’s father worked as the chairman of Solo Serve Corporation.
Is Marie Brenner married? | Marie Brenner Spouse
Brenner has been married twice. Her first marriage was to Jonathan Schwartz, a radio personality who is the presenter of an internet radio station, The Jonathan Station. The two were married from 1979 to 1984 when they got divorced. Their marriage resulted in the birth of a daughter. She is now married to Ernest Harold Pomerantz since 1985
Marie Brenner Daughter
Marie Brenner has a daughter with her ex-husband Jonathan Schwartz. Her name is Casy Schwartz. Like her parents, Casey has worked as a writer with her work appearing on platforms like The New York Times and The New York Sun.
Marie Brenner Journalism Career
Brenner studied Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon completion, she earned a B.A and went further to pursue an M.A. from New York University Film School. She started working soon after and she became the first female baseball columnist covering the American League, traveling with the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Herald during the 1979 season.
She became a contributing editor for New York magazine and she wrote for the magazine between 1980 and 1984. She even covered the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
In 1984, she joined Vanity Fair as a special correspondent. In 1992, she left to become a staff writer at The New Yorker, and returned to Vanity Fair in 1995 as a writer-at-large. Her work is kept in an archive at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
Brenner’s most explosive article was her 1996 article for Vanity Fair on Jeffrey Wigand and the tobacco wars. It was titled “The Man Who Knew Too Much”. The piece was made into the 1999 feature film The Insider, directed by Michael Mann and starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her other Vanity Fair article that is famous is the 2002 “The Enron Wars”. This delved into the investigation into the Enron scandals. It made it to newsrooms when Senator Peter Fitzgerald used it to question witnesses testifying before a Senate committee.
In 2009, the Manhattan Theater Club announced that it had commissioned Alfred Uhry to adapt Brenner’s memoir Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found for the stage.
Marie Brenner Books
♦ 2018 – A Private war: Marie Colvin and other tales of heroes, scoundrels and renegades, London: Simon & Schuster, UK Ltd.
♦ 2008 – Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner New York: Picador, 2008
♦ 2000 – Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women New York: Three Rivers Press
♦ 1988 – House of Dreams: the collapse of an American dynasty, London: Joseph
♦ 1983 – Intimate Distance New York, N. Y. : W. Morrow and Co.
♦ 1978 – Going Hollywood: An Insider’s Look at Power and Pretense in the Movie Business New York: Delacorte Pres
♦ 1976 – Tell Me Everything New York: New American Library
Marie Brenner Net Worth
Brenner’s exact net worth is not known.
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