Mark Arax

About the Author

Mark Arax is a bestselling author and journalist whose writings on California and the West have received numerous awards for literary nonfiction. A former staffer at the Los Angeles Times, his work has appeared in The New York Times and The California Sunday Magazine. His books include The Dreamt Land, In My Father’s Name, West of the West, and the bestselling The King of California, which won a California Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize from Stanford University and was named a top book of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Fresno.
 
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