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Mark Steyn (born December 8, 1959) is a Canadian writer, journalist, and conservative political commentator. He has written five books, including ''America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It'', a ''New York Times'' bestseller. He is published in newspapers and magazines, and appears on shows such as those of Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, and Sean Hannity. Steyn, a Canadian citizen, now lives and works mainly in Woodsville, New Hampshire. He is married, with three children.〔("SteynOnline" ), FAQs February 14, 2007. Accessed August 24, 2008〕 ==Life and career== Steyn was born in Toronto. He was baptized a Catholic and later confirmed in the Anglican Church;〔 he has stated that "the last Jewish female in my line was one of my paternal great-grandmothers" and that "both my grandmothers were Catholic". Steyn's great-aunt was artist Stella Steyn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Steyn on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on the 27th of August 2009 )〕 His mother's family was Belgian.〔http://www.steynonline.com/4237/the-fool-at-the-hill〕 Steyn was educated at the King Edward's School, Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, the same school that author J. R. R. Tolkien attended and where Steyn was assigned a Greek dictionary that had also been used by Tolkien. Steyn left school in 1978 at age 18 and worked as a disc jockey before becoming musical theatre critic at the newly established ''The Independent'' in 1986.〔 He was appointed film critic for ''The Spectator'' in 1992. After writing predominantly about the arts, Steyn shifted his focus to political commentary and wrote a column for ''The Daily Telegraph'', a conservative broadsheet, until 2006. He has written for a wide range of publications, including the ''Jerusalem Post'', ''Orange County Register'', ''Chicago Sun-Times'', ''National Review'', ''The New York Sun'', ''The Australian'', ''Maclean's'', ''The Irish Times'', ''National Post'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Western Standard'', and ''The New Criterion''. Steyn's books include ''Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now'' (a history of the musical theatre) and ''America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It'', a ''New York Times'' bestseller. He has also published collections of his columns and his celebrity obituaries and profiles from ''The Atlantic''. Steyn held a Eugene C. Pulliam Visiting Fellowship in Journalism at Hillsdale College in spring 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eugene C. Pulliam Visiting Fellowship in Journalism )〕 As of 2010, Steyn was no longer the back-page columnist for the print edition of National Review, conservative writer James Lileks having taken over that space in the print edition. Steyn's back-page column for ''National Review'', "Happy Warrior", resumed with the March 21, 2011 issue. Steyn also has contributed to the center-right blog Ricochet.com and recorded numerous podcasts with the organization. Steyn is also a guest host of ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.〔(SteynOnlineMark's bio'' )〕 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「Mark Steyn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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