Mark Matousek Biography
Mark Matousek is a memoirist, teacher, and journalist from the United States. Matousek moved to New York City in 1981, first working as a reporter for Reuters covering popular culture, then in the letters department of Newsweek magazine.
Mark Matousek Age
He was born on 5 February 1957, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Mark is 66 years old as of February 2023.
Mark Matousek Education
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in dramatic art from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude), a fellowship to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1979, and a master’s degree in English literature from UCLA in 1981.
Mark Matousek Family- Parents
Matousek was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father, James Matousek, disappeared when he was four, leaving his mother in dire straits; his sister Marcia committed suicide in 1978.
Mark Matousek Career
Matousek moved to New York City in 1981, first working as a stringer for Reuters covering popular culture, then in the letters department of Newsweek magazine. Andy Warhol’s Interview employed him in 1982, initially as a proofreader, then as the magazine’s first senior editor. Matousek conducted hundreds of interviews with significant individuals in film, television, books, fine art, politics, design, and science over the next three years. Concerned about the deaths of friends from AIDS, he quit his work in 1985 and spent the following several years traveling Europe, India, and the United States as an itinerant dharma bum and freelance journalist.
Matousek moved gears from pop culture to psychology, religion, and spiritual quest after being drawn to eastern philosophy, particularly Buddhism, and became a contributing editor to Common Boundary Magazine, where his back page column, The Naked Eye, appeared from 1994 to 1999. Following that, he was nominated for a National Magazine Award for “America’s Darkest Secret” (on the incidence of incest in the United States). He has written essays for The New Yorker, Details, O: The Oprah Magazine, Tricycle, The Utne Reader, AARP Magazine, Out, Good Housekeeping, Yoga Journal, McCalls, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. His Ethical Wisdom blog publishes on The Huffington Post and Psychology Today online on a regular basis.
2009 Matousek was appointed creative director of V-Men, the male wing of playwright Eve Ensler’s V-Day campaign to end violence against women and girls, as well as curator of their online essay series. His autobiographical essay “Rescue” has been performed all over the world. In 2008, he moderated the men’s panel for V to the Tenth at the New Orleans Superdome. Matousek is now working on a play called Breaking Out the Man Box (co-written with writer James Lecesne). He has been a popular writing instructor at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, as well as the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck and The New York Open Center. Matousek is a PEN International member and a member of the core faculty at Old Stone Farm, a healing center in Staatsburg, New York.
Mark Matousek Net Worth
Mark has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.