Marcus Baram

MARCUS BARAM is Managing Editor at International Business Times and a former news editor at the New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, and Huffington Post. He has also worked at the New York Daily News and ABC News and has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York magazine, Vibe, the Village Voice, and the New York Post. Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man is his first book. A life-long fan, Baram knew Gil Scott-Heron and they were discussing collaborating on a memoir before he died.