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Early life and education. Raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973. Career. Stein wrote the screenplay for the Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin film Housesitter. His stage plays were first produced at New Playwrights Theater of Washington, D.C.
Mark Stein's books include How the States Got Their Shapes, American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why, and Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs & Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present.
Over the years, Mark Stein's lyrical works have appeared in Nimrod, Michigan Quarterly, Confrontation, Madison Review, Moment magazine, Exposition Review, Eclectica, Burningword Journal, and elsewhere.
Mark Stein is the author of How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times bestseller that became the basis of the History Channel series of the same name, in which he frequently appears. He is also the author of How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines.
Mark Stein has 31 books on Goodreads with 12401 ratings. Mark Stein’s most popular book is How the States Got Their Shapes.
Apr 7, 2009 · Mark Stein is the author of How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times Bestseller that became the basis of the History Channel series of the same name, and its companion book, How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines, which answers the question: Since no child ever said, "When I grow up, I want to ...
May 20, 2014 · In his book "American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us, and Why", author Mark Stein takes us through a litany of things which have, at one time or another, given rise to fea r and /or panic in the American public.
