Scott D Carlson

Scott Carlson is the author of two novels: "L. M. Sinclair Must Be Stopped!" and "Karl Marx and the Lost California Manifesto" (a Kirkus Reviews "Best Indie Book of 2025," and a "Best Booklife Review of 2025"). He has been a taxi driver, a short-order cook, a hospital orderly, a farmhand, an Army cook, a lawyer, a teacher, a so-far failed screenwriter, a housedad, and a freelance writer一not in that order. He has an MA in Creative Writing from New York University, and has published pieces in the Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, New Mexico Magazine, Cimarron Review, Other Voices, and Palo Alto Weekly.