Mark Sarvas

Mark Sarvas
Born	New York, NY
Education	NYU
Occupation	Novelist, Book Reviewer, Blogger

Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American novelist, book reviewer, and blogger living in Los Angeles. He is the host of the literary blog The Elegant Variation and author of the novel Harry, Revised (Bloomsbury, Spring 2008). Harry, Revised was a finalist for the Fiction Prize of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association, and was also a 2008 Denver Post Good Reads selection. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages, including French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Hebrew and Korean. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN/America and a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Awards

• 2005: Guardian Top 10 Litblog
• 2005: Los Angeles Magazine Top LA Blog
• 2006: Forbes Best of the Web
• 2008: Southern California Independent Booksellers Association: First Fiction Prize finalist

External links

• NY Times Book Review: Hunk City
• NY Times Book Review: I Love You, Beth Cooper
• Jewish Journal Profile
• Eight Diagrams interview
• NY Sun - The Battle of the Books
• NPR interview

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Name	Sarvas, Mark
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Date of birth	September 26, 1964
Place of birth	New York, NY
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