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Wikipedia Bio for David Joseph Marcou

David Joseph Marcou has lived in London (1981) and Seoul (1984-87), and now resides in western Wisconsin. He is a writer, documentary photographer, and editor of numerous articles and twelve plays along with books from his writing classes. The New York Times online feature ‘Documenting The Decade’ has 8 photos of his depicting the Presidential elections of the decade.

Birth and Education

David J. Marcou was born on Nov. 25, 1950 in LaCrosse, WI. His parents are David A. Fitzgerald Marcou, a retired butcher, and Rose C. Muskat Marcou, a retired nursing home clerk. He is the oldest of 4 brothers and 3 sisters. David graduated from Franklin, St. James, and Aquinas schools in LaCrosse. He earned a B.A. in History at the UW-Madison in 1973, a M.A. in American Studies at the University of Iowa in 1978, and a B.J. in Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1984.

His work has been notably influenced by the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, the Missouri Group, Iowa’s John Raeburn, and UW’s Tom Ryan. Mr. Ryan persuaded David to see the Sean O’Casey play ‘Juno and the Paycock’, which put him in touch with his Irish heritage. He would later write a sequel to this play.

Among his work experiences are stints as a lifeguard, meat clerk, librarian, custodian, UPS clerk, teacher, and journalist. He married Ann Majeska, a Spanish teacher, in 1973 and divorced in 1979.

Professional and Personal Life

In 1980 David photographed and wrote his first picture story on Patrick Clark, a boy with spina bifida. And in summer 1981, he photographed Hannibal, MO, for Missouri Life Magazine. Participating in the Missouri-London Reporting Program in autumn 1981, he met and interviewed former Picture Post contributors, Bert Hardy and James Cameron. His best photo of Bert and his dogs is in the Photographs Collection in Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. He also photographed a day nursery, covered immigration and the arts, and wrote a notable report about 50 IRA relatives meeting with Britain’s Cardinal Basil Hume.

With his journalism degree in hand, he became the chief international desk copy editor for Yonhap, South Korea’s main news agency. After moving on to Business Korea Magazine, he met and married Suk-Hee Sim. Their son, Matthew Ambrose Marcou, was born in 1987, but David and his wife divorced in 1992.

In 1990, Mr. Marcou edited the Adams-Friendship, WI papers. Some of his photographs from the newspaper now reside in the Wisconsin Historical Society Collection, where he has a Featured Gallery. He was the LaCrosse, WI correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 1991-2006. David has written about photographic history for Smithsonian Magazine, The Royal Photographic Society, and the British Journal of Photography.

His own works include street and event photos, informal portraits, and still-lives. Presidents, Mother Teresa (from whom he received 17 personal letters), Miss America 2003 Erika Harold, Cardinal Raymond Burke, former bishop of the LaCrosse diocese, Lord Runcie, Brett Favre, Barry Alvarez, and other notables have found their way into his camera’s lenses. Soldiers, athletes, artists, Mark Twain, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Annie Leibovitz, and John Loengard are among his writing subjects. David has also published online his complete history of Picture Post Magazine, “All the Best.”

While teaching adult writing and photography for Western Technical College from 1991-2002, and in the years immediately after that, David Marcou edited ‘Spirit of Wisconsin’, ‘Spirit of the World’, and the ‘Spirit of America’ series plus other anthologies for the group he leads, The American Writers and Photographers Alliance (AWPA). He has worked with his son on many personal books, authored his British and Korean memoirs, and ‘Chosen’, a novel based on a modern peninsula resembling Korea.

David has also written 12 plays, including ‘Song of Joy--Or the Old Reliables.’ A sequel to Sean O’Casey’s classic tragicomedy ‘Juno and the Paycock’, it retains comic elements and key O’Casey characters, moving them 18 years into the future. Pub crawlers Captain Boyle and Joxer Daly partly redeem themselves in the sequel. He revised it in 2010-2011, implementing changes suggested in a positive critique from the Literary Staff of the National Theatre of Ireland (the Abbey Theatre).

Awards and Distinctions

In addition to nominations for two Pulitzer Prizes, a Governor’s Art Award, and two POYI awards, David edited ‘Spirit of America’, which won the Sept. 12th Guild’s top book award in 2002. The award was presented to Mr. Marcou and others in his group by Greg Hilbert and Mary Eisenhower. ‘Spirit of the World’, which David also edited, won a Governor’s Commendation from Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle in 2006. Contributors to these anthologies include top students, teachers, public officials, entrepreneurs, clergy, journalists, archivists, family, and friends.

           Sources:

'If I Do the Research, the Lord Brings Me Luck: The Plain-Spoken Autobiography of David J. Marcou,' RC Printing Co.: LaCrosse, WI, 1992.

'Mother Teresa “Miracle” Led to Renewed Faith', LaCrosse Tribune, Oct. 18, 2003, p. 1, by Linda McAlpine.

'Local Playwright Pens Sequel to Classic Irish Play,' LaCrosse Tribune, Aug. 5, 2008, by Geri Parlin.

External Links:

http://lacrossehistory/org/literature/marcou.html – La Crosse History Unbound Website Link to Samples of David J. Marcou's Literature and Drama.

http://wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/marcou/ – Featured Gallery of Photos by David J. Marcou, on Wisconsin Historical Society Website.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2698800185.html Full members only can access the online version of the Contemporary Authors bio about David J. Marcou

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?g=marcou%2C+david – Partial listing of Smithsonian holdings of works by David J. Marcou.

http:w.qpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRI-1991/html/CRI-1991-MARCOU-DAVID-J.htm – Congressional Record Index to Citation of David J. Marcou-Written Article Entered in Praise of then-La Crosse Mayor Patrick Zielke by Wisconsin US Sen. Robert Kasten. –  http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php? firstRun=true&sText=marcou&search=sa&LinkID=mp65815&role=art&rNo=O

           – Citation for Photo-Portrait of Bert Hardy and His Dogs Taken by David J. Marcou in 1981           and\
Housed in the Photographs Collection of Britain's National Portrait Gallery (NPGx126230).
     
           
           http://host.madison.com/wsj/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/books/article_b2b333el-0143-   5dcc-ba51-61f14ccc455f.html  “’Photo Book, online gallery Celebrate Wisconsin Life’ by Jeanne Kolker, Wisconsin state Journal Dec. 27, 2010.  The review covers David J. Marcou’s retrospective photo book “American Eyes” co-authored with his son Matthew, plus the online gallery of David’s photos (160 images) on the Wisconsin Historical Society website.

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