Dawidziak’s 12^th+ book out in 2015

Illustration by Mark Dawidziak; Mark D. as Twain

PD and former BJ television critic Mark Dawidziak’s next book on humorist Mark Twain will be “Mark Twain’s Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Romance, Health and Happiness.” It will be published in June 2015 by Prospect Park Books.

Mark did the illustrations for the book.

Previous books by our Mark on Samuel Langhorne Clemmens’ Mark: “Mark My Words” and “Mark Twain on Writing.” When Mark isn’t doing Mark Twain shows with his Largely Literary Theater Company, he’s doing Charles Dickens or Edgar Allen Poe works. Although Mark and wife Sara Showman, who live in Cuyahoga Falls, did add a Civil War show, “Shades of Blue and Gray,” in 2013.

LLTC was formed in 2001. After 15 years at the BJ, Dawidziak trained his sights on the PD in 1999.

Among Dawidziak’s dozen or more books are the 1994 horror novel, “Grave Secrets”; two histories of landmark TV series, “The Columbo Phile: A Casebook” (1989) and “The Night Stalker Companion” (1997); and “The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula” (2008).

Dawidziak came to the BJ from Tennessee in 1983, but grew up in Brooklyn. The one in New York, not the one in Ohio.

Before the BJ & the PD, Mark's career took him to:

1979-83: arts editor (theater, film and TV critic), Kingsport Times-News (Tennessee)
    1979: arts editor (theater, film and TV critic), Bristol Herald Courier (Virginia)
    1978: city editor, Associated Press, Washington, D.C., bureau
    1977-78: bureau assistant, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Washington, D.C., bureau