Mark Stein

Who is Mark Stein?

Mark Avrum Stein (born 18 May 1951) is an author and playwright. His book, How the States Got Their Shapes (2009), became the basis for a History Channel series of the same name. Other non-fiction includes its companion volume, The People Behind the Borderlines (2012), American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why (2014), and Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present (2017).

Stein's plays have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespear