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Marie Brenner (born 1949) is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for ''Vanity Fair''. She has also written for ''New York'', ''The New Yorker'' and the ''Boston Herald''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marie Brenner )〕 and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The George T. Delacorte Center )〕 Her ''Vanity Fair'' article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", inspired the 1999 movie ''The Insider'', starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. ==Personal== Marie Harriet Brenner was born in San Antonio, Texas to Milton and Thelma Brenner. She grew up in San Antonio and moved to New York in 1970. Her father was chairman of Solo Serve Corporation, a chain of Texas discount stores started by her grandfather Isidor Brenner, who emigrated from Mexico to Texas during the Mexican Revolution. The grandfather, was born in the Baltic duchy of Kurland in 1872 and came through the Texas port, Galveston, in 1890. The grandmother, Paula, came from Riga, Latvia and Chicago.〔Marie Brenner (2008). Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found. New York: Sarah Crichton Books. pp. 99-100 and 104-105. ISBN 9780374173524〕 She is the niece of Anita Brenner, anthropologist and author of ''Idols Behind Alters'', published in 1929. Anita was a member of the circle of Mexican muralists and artists, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Edward Weston, and Tina Modotti, who flourished in Mexico in the 1920s and was widely credited with helping to introduce their work in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anita Brenner: A Preliminary Inventory of Her Papers )〕 One of the first women to be a regular contributor to ''The New York Times'', Anita Brenner once interviewed Leon Trotsky, the deposed leader of the Russian Revolution and was an authority on Mexico and Latin American affairs. She had an older brother Carl, a lawyer turned apple farmer who was the focus of her memoir, ''Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Brenner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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