Mark Osmun
Mark Osmun studied creative writing and English at George Mason University in Virginia, graduating cum laude in 1975. He attended two high schools: Punahou School in Honolulu and Langley High School in McLean, Virginia.
His writing career spans 40 years as a journalist, freelancer and author. He has worked as a foreig.... more
Mark Osmun studied creative writing and English at George Mason University in Virginia, graduating cum laude in 1975. He attended two high schools: Punahou School in Honolulu and Langley High School in McLean, Virginia.
His writing career spans 40 years as a journalist, freelancer and author. He has worked as a foreign correspondent and travel writer for The San Francisco Examiner, west coast correspondent for USA Today, and is a past contributor to Rolling Stone, Playboy, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Orange County Register, The Dallas Morning News, Sacramento Magazine, Honolulu Magazine, The Yacht Magazine, The Marin Independent Journal and The Runner Magazine.
His two novels are the 2000 bestseller Marley’s Ghost and After the Bones. Nonfiction works include The Honolulu Marathon and three biographies: Dancer, V-Mail, and Bob Gong and the American Dream. His 1985, six-part series for The San Francisco Examiner on South African apartheid became a finalist in the H.L. Mencken Awards of the Free Press Association. Writing has taken him to such places as Alaska, Scotland, Grenada, Costa Rica, Hawaii, South Africa, and throughout the United States.
For more on the author, please visit www.ravenideas.com . Older editions of The Honolulu Marathon and Marley’s Ghost are available on amazon.com, but all his books are available at www.lulu.com.