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Mark Marinovich

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in San Francisco, The United States

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http://www.seacliffparknovel.com

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thriller

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Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Rex Pickett
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Mark Marinovich is a former journalist who has written for Silicon Valley technology companies during his career. He has also written numerous screenplays, including award-winning scripts in prestigious contests, and two novels. His earlier works, The White Boats and A Boutique Safari, explore the environmental impacts of human behavior. His third novel, Seacliff Park, is a historical thriller set on Monterey Bay in 1929.

A San Francisco native, Mark resides on Monterey Bay.

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	The White Boats 3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Remembering Henry Miller’s Big Sur Years

Author, painter, and bohemian provocateur Henry Miller famously wrote the sexually explicit autobiographical novels, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, while he lived in Interwar Paris during the 1930s. He returned to the U.S. just before the outbreak of World War II. Until 1964, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Tropic of Cancer was not obscene, both books were banned from import in Read more of this blog post »

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Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

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