Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer is the founder of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism and the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, and the author of Three Farms, Invasive Procedures, and Travels With a Hungry Bear. He co-edited the anthology Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction as well as Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide From the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. He was a writer in residence at Smith College and Boston University.

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Benign Violence
“Some surgeons are just lucky,” according to one doctor. But a surgeon’s luck is a matter of skill and character
Mark Kramer
May 1, 1983
Letters From the Country
Mark Kramer
June 1, 1981
The Ruination of the Tomato
It wasn’t a conspiracy, it was just good business sense—but why did modern agriculture have to take the taste away?
Mark Kramer
January 1, 1980
Invasive Procedures: A Surgeon's Day
“A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two. ”
Mark Kramer
September 1, 1979
Making Milk: The Survival of a Farm
Farming in New England takes place in an atmosphere of siege, but those Yankee dairymen who endure are among the best farmers in the United States.
Mark Kramer
November 1, 1977
Country Fair
Mark Kramer
October 1, 1976