“One of America’s most innovative writers of literary nonfiction*,” Mark Sundeen was born in Harbor City, California, in 1970. He is the award-winning author of The Man Who Quit Money (Riverhead, 2012) whose nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, the Believer, and elsewhere. His other books are Car Camping (HarperCollins, 2000) and The Making of Toro (Simon & Schuster, 2003), and he co-authored North By Northwestern (St. Martin’s, 2010), which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He has taught fiction and nonfiction at the MFA creative writing programs at the University of New Mexico and Southern New Hampshire University. He lives in Montana and Utah. *Austin Statesman
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this is no reply; only a comment or a suggestion, depending on how you like it. After seeing your promo vid for “The Man Who Quit Money,” it made me think of Jack London, who also contemplated our economy, social or monetary, and the value, or “dignity” of dollars, in a short bit of journalism published in 1900. “The Dignity of Dollars”: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/ahj1472.2-36.211/57:18?rgn=full+text;view=image