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Paul Markun

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Paul Markun

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in Balboa, Panama
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Paul Markun grew up in the Canal Zone of Panama. The youngest of four, his parents eventually moved to Washington, D.C. where he attended Sidwell Friends School. Paul met his wife Rachel, an attorney, when he was 18 and she was even younger at the University of Chicago.
His mother wrote a dozen children’s books and was a speech writer, but his parents’ stories of the Depression scared him so much he decided to be an entrepreneur first, make some money, and then pursue writing. That took longer than he planned. After three loving children, and thirty years in Silicon Valley, he finally figured it out.
License is his second novel. The Big Disrupter was the first in the series.

Average rating: 4.29 · 34 ratings · 23 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Big Disrupter

4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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License

4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings2 editions
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'Twas the Dream

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings2 editions
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Aspiring novelist makes the West Wing spin

You may not know Ben Rhodes, President Obama’s chief speech writer, but the once aspiring novelist, is now the 30-something Boy Wonder wordsmith creating the foreign policy narrative for the world’s most powerful country.


Rhodes at US-China Nuclear Summit credit Doug Mill New York TimesDavid Samuel’s recent article in the New York Times is a characteristic deep dive, and this one is well worth the time, taking us into Rhodes’ unorthodox but seemingly deserving r

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