Mark Kurlansky Biography

Mark Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright having a number of off-off Broadway productions and as a playwright-in-residence at Brooklyn College. He won the 1972 Earplay award for best radio play of the year. He worked many other jobs including as a commercial fisherman a dock worker a paralegal a cook and a pastry chef. In the mid 1970s unhappy with the direction New York theater was taking he turned to journalism an early interest he had been an editor on his high school newspaper. Based in Paris and then Mexico he reported on Europe West Africa Southeast Asia Central America Latin America and the Caribbean. He wrote his first book A Continent of Islands in 1992 and went on to write several books throughout the 1990s. His 1997 book Cod was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages. His work and contribution to Basque identity and culture was recognized in 2001 when the Society of Basque Studies in America named him to the Basque Hall of Fame. That same year he was awarded an honorary ambassadorship from the Basque government.

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