Mark S. Smith is an American journalist and writer now based in south Florida, after living for many years in Europe. He is the former Deputy Business Editor of The Herald newspaper in Scotland and is the recipient of a prestigious Scottish Arts Council Award. Mark S. Smith was born in Los Angeles, California, was schooled in both the U.S. and the U.K., and has traveled extensively as a journalist and writer throughout Europe, the U.S., and parts of the Middle East, Asia and South America. He has written literally thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and is the author of the acclaimed historical/personal work, "Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling," and the novel, "Masel." He is also the co-author of "How to Make Money With Commodities."