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Mike Marqusee
American writer, journalist, and political activist (1953–2015)
Mike Marqusee (;[1] 27 January 1953 – 13 January 2015[2]) was an American writer, journalist, and political activist in London.
Life and career
"Both in the eloquence of his writing and the deep humanism of his vision, Mike Marqusee stands shoulder to shoulder with the spirits of Isaac Deutscher and Edward Said."
—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz
Marqusee's first published work was the essay "Turn Left at Scarsdale", written when he was a sixteen-year-old high school student in New York and included in the 1970 collection "High School Revolutionaries".[3] Marqusee, who described himself as a "deracinated New York Marxist Jew", lived in Britain from 1971.
He wrote mainly about politics, popular culture, the Indian sub-continent and cricket, and was a regular correspondent for, among others, The Guardian, Red Pepper, and The Hindu. After he was di