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literary biography, public intellectualism, violence and masculinity, The Executioner's Song, existentialism and risk, postwar American culture

Mark Olshaker

Mark Olshaker is the author of numerous nonfiction books, mainly on criminal justice and behavioral profiling, and five novels, including Einstein’s Brain and The Edge. He is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose subject matter has ranged from architecture to history, science to terrorism, current events to classical theater. He has written commissioned screenplays for several of his novels, as well as the IMAX film Stormchasers. He is President of The Norman Mailer Society and lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Carolyn, an attorney.