Kurlansky, Mark

Autor: Kurlansky, Mark
Rok: 1948-

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Americký spisovatel a novinář.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Mark Kurlansky (born December 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. Kurlansky's latest book, City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife was published in February, 2015.Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Butler University, where he harbored an early interest in theatre and earned a BA in 1970. However, his interest faded and he began to work as a journalist in the 1970s. During the '70s he worked as a correspondent in Western Europe for the Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and eventually the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. He moved to Mexico in 1982 where he continued to do journalism. 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 is recognized in the Basque hall of fame.Kurlansky as a teenager called Émile Zola his "hero", and in 2009 Kurlansky translated one of Zola's novels The Belly of Paris whose theme is the food markets of Paris.His 2009 book The Food of a Younger Land, details American foodways in the early 20th century, with the lengthy subtitle, "A portrait of American food – before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional – from the lost WPA files."