About
Mark Stein is the author of How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times Best Seller that became the basis of a History Channel series by the same name. His other non-fiction books include, How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People behind the Borderlines; American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why; Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present, and The Presidential Fringe: Questing and Jesting for the Oval Office. He wrote the screenplay for the Steve Martin/Goldie Hawn film, Housesitter, and plays produced at Manhattan Theater Club, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and elsewhere. Most recently, Kelsay Books published My Baboons Padding Around, a collection of his poetry.
Featured Work
My Baboons Padding Around
“A veritable wunderkammer of words, a place to meet Christian fiddle players in klezmer bands, sweet soulful dogs who enviably watch their fellows getting walked, and Kabbalah-inspired tailors who talk to cats. Baboons – an archaic term for grotesque figures in decorative art – abound, as do their more familiar counterparts. Every page arrests your attention with an insight or an image to make you see, and think, anew.” – Robert Masello, author “Robert’s Rules of Writing”
