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Mark Jacobson

Contributing editor, <em>New York </em>magazine

As a contributing editor for New York magazine, Mark Jacobson has covered everything from 9/11 conspiracy theorists to New York’s #1 escort to the new Brooklyn. His 2000 feature on Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, “The Return of Superfly,” was made into the film American Gangster starring Denzel Washington. That story and other tales of New York from the past 30 years are collected in the book American Gangster (Grove Press, 2007). His 1975 New York piece “Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet” became the basis for the television series "Taxi."

Jacobson has also been a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Esquire, and is the author of The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans, 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe, Teenage Hipster in the Modern World and the novels Gojiro and Everyone and No One. Jacobson lives in Brooklyn.

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