Marcus McGee

MARCUS MCGEE

Curriculum Vitae

Birth date August 8, Casablanca Morocco

Locale

19XX - 1964 Casablanca, Morocco

1964 - 1967 Madrid, Spain

1967 - 1969 Omaha, Nebraska

1969 - 1984 Sacramento, California

Valley High School

(Speech, Debate, Languages, Music)

California State University, Sacramento

(Communication Studies major, French Language & Theatre Arts minors)

1984 - present Sacramento, CA and Los Angeles, CA

Writing/Production History

1982 - Three plays: Solomon and Constance, Michael Angelo, Stevie: The Eighth Wonder of the World

1983 - Produced and directed Stevie at Sierra II Theatre, Sacramento, July; wrote stage play Table 21

Wrote No More Cheesecake!; began first novel

1985 - Completed novel Deus Ex Machina, completed two plays: Caesar and Kidstuff

1986 - Wrote stage play Dream and one-act Fashion

1987 - Adapted Dream as screenplay; Piss Only on the Porcelain, short stories Till Death Do Us Part, Mr. Peacock, Anthropophagi

1988 - Wrote The Love Tragedies and Remember

1990 - Produced, directed and starred in No More Cheesecake! at the Sacramento Community Center Theatre, March; began Willie Brown biography

1994 - Wrote Mommy! There's A Little Boy Under My Bed!

1996 - Completed Willie: The Man, The Myth & The Era; wrote short stories

1998 - Founded Pegasus Books; Published An Essay: On Niggers and Squirrels; began writing legal novel; wrote Black Bertha

1999 - Published short story collection: Four Stories; finished novel; wrote Apology

2000 - Published novel Legal Thriller; Published An Essay: On The Execution of Timothy McVeigh

2001 - Published short story collection: Synchronicity; began new novel

2002 - Published thriller The Last Year

2003 - Researched and developed Griot film project

2004 - Completed short story collection: The Silk Noose; began sequel to Legal Thriller

2005-06 - Published The Silk Noose; researched and

developed thriller Viral Vector; continued

writing Murder From the Grave

2007-08 - Completed Murder From the Grave; began writing ViralVector; founded Parnassus Press Partnership Publishing

2009-10: - Published Murder From the Grave; published Shadow In The Sky, published Moment of Truth, published Mommy, There's A Little Boy Under My Bed! completed Viral Vector; began work on An Old Negro Spiritual and An Essay On What They've Called Us; Borders Book tour of the Northwest - Murder From The Grave a bestseller for region in Q4

2010-11 - Wrote and published How To Eat An Elephant and Two Matadors; converted all books to eBooks; greater emphasis on publishing new writers

2011-12 - Focus on Pegasus Books and developing company;

2013 - Published Viral Vector and sixteen titles by varied authors, including Against a Tide of Evil, by Mukesh Kapila, Anias Nin: The Last Days, by Barbara Kraft and The Tenor, by Peter Danish; Wrote The Family Business.

Extras: Fluent in French, competent at Latin and

Spanish; accomplished at saxophone and other

woodwinds; strong science, math, history,

political science and religions background

Hobbies: Reading history and philosophy; theatrical

production; music and movies

Passions: Writing, research, stories, wine, art, travel and adventure.

Odd Fact: Marcus managed an upscale/political/lobbyist hangout Chinese restaurant called Frank Fat's, one block from the California State Capitol, for fourteen years.

Spend a day with Marcus McGee: http://marcusmcgee.net/