Mark Bernstein

Mark Bernstein is an author and magazine writer with particular interests in American biography, and social and technological history. Born in Chicago, he, having lived in the Washington, DC area for 15 years, now resides in Dayton, Ohio.

His most recent work is "McCulloch of Ohio: For the Republic" [2014], a full-length biography of the Republican congressman who led bipartisan efforts to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting Rights Act and 1968 Open Housing Act.

His previous work includes "John J. Gilligan: The Politics of Principle" [Kent State University Press, 2013], the first full-length biography of the Ohio's transformative governor and the state's most significant post-World War Two Democrat; "World War II on the Air" [with Alex Lubertozzi and Dan Rather; Sourcebooks, 2003], an account of Edward R. Murrow and the CBS radio coverage of the European Theater, complete with a 55-minute audio CD of classic broadcasts; and "Grand Eccentrics" [Orange Frazer Press, 1996], a group biography of such turn-of-the-century inventors and entrepreneurs as the Wright Brothers, Charles Kettering and others.

He has been interviewed on-camera for "Million Dollar Idea" [2015], a Smithsonian Institution television documentary series on American inventors, and "Left Behind America," an episode of PBS' FRONTLINE [2018], among other appearances.

Two of his works, "Grand Eccentrics" and "Wright Brothers' Home Day Celebration, 1909" are among the 70 books listed in the bibliography of David McCullough's New York Times #1 best-seller, "The Wright Brothers" [2015].

His 100 magazine articles have appeared in Smithsonian, Smithsonian Air & Space and American Heritage of Invention and Technology and he has been contributing editor to both OHIO magazine [thrice named the nation's best regional magazine] and of World Trade Magazine.