James Foley
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About
American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered by the Islamic paramilitary group ISIS in August 2014. He was previously a writer for the Middle Eastern newspapers Stars and Stripes and GlobalPost.
Before Fame
He graduated from Marquette before graduating from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Trivia
His alma mater, Marquette University, established The James Foley Scholarship in the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication in his honor.
Family Life
He was the first of five children born to Diane and John Foley.
Associated With
He and Time magazine's Steven Sotloff were both killed by ISIS.
