Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson, who currently resides in Philadelphia, writes about law, history and food, among other topics. American Character, his biography of Charles Lummis, an Indian rights activist who lived in California and the Southwest from the 1880s through the 1920s, was honored by Western Writers of America in 2002 with a Spur Award for best biography. His second book, Vintage California Cuisine, traces the origins of the state's unique culinary sensibility to the earliest cookbooks published in California. He has written for dozens of publications including the Atlantic, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. For more about Mark, visit MTPortfolio.me.