Mark Warhus

Mark Warhus. I have been writing for over twenty years "Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land," St. Martin's Press, 1997 was my first non-fiction. "Love Among the Arias" was my first e-book. I have been doing a lot of research on the Fifteenth Century, the Catholic Saints, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia. This has resulted in a historical novel - if you count the last 30 years as historical - tentatively titled "A Wound to the Soul," for which I am hoping to find an agent. I am just beginning work on a new novel set in the Fifteenth Century involving popes, the Ottoman Empire, Italian condottiere, Venice's trading empire and the whole shift that took place with the incursion of the Ottomans into Europe, the Reformation, the Renaissance and a bunch of other things that set the stage for the modern world.

As for my reading habits I often tend toward English and other Oxbridge writers. Martin Amis is a favorite, went through everything I could find by Evelyn Waugh, V. S. Naipaul's stuff is amazing, and the best thing I've found in the last two years has been Amitav Ghosh's work particularly Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke. I am waiting for the third book of this trilogy. Americans I really admire include Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler. I enjoyed Ann Pachett's Bel Canto and Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex, and lately I've really enjoyed Mary Doria Russell's Doc and The Sparrow. Other recommendations would be Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan - harrowing stories of life in Central Africa, and Rohinton Mistry's (an Indian born Canadian Writer) Such A Long Journey. Books that tell a good story, give you the feel for someone else's life, and I am a sucker for happy endings. There is a link to my blog here where you are welcome to ask questions and check out my work in greater detail.