Mark Schreiber

Mark Schreiber

Mark Schreiber (b. 1960 in Cincinnati, Ohio), is an American writer. He has written over thirty-five books, mostly novels but also memoirs, essays and general science.

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Biography

His sister, Ellen Schreiber, is also an author.

Schreiber graduated high school at age fifteen and set aside the opportunity to go to college to write full time. He did not find a publisher for his first six novels. His seventh, Princes in Exile, was written when he was twenty and published by Beaufort Books in 1983. It was subsequently published in ten other countries and made into a critically acclaimed film,[1] which was produced by John Dunning II and André Link.[2]

In 2000 Schreiber met Olga Sidorova, a Russian solo trapezist currently starring in Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco. He decided to write an unofficial book about her and other members in the cast, including Olympian Elena Grosheva, Alya Titarenko and Jesko von den Steinen.

In 2006 Schreiber was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, an extremely rare and often fatal bone marrow failure disease. He was treated by Jarek Maciejewski, a leading researcher on the disease at the Cleveland Clinic and has since become active in fundraising and getting attention for rare diseases. He published a My Turn essay in Newsweek in January, 2008.[3]

Selected works

  • Princes in Exile (1983)
  • Carnelian (2000)
  • Dreams of the Solo Trapeze: Offstage with the Cirque du Soleil (2005)
  • Starcrossed (2007)
  • Pebble Beach (2007)
  • How to Build an Elephant (2007)

References

  1. ^ Stephen Holden, The New York Times, 22 February 1991
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100411/;http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800147737/info
  3. ^ Newsweek, 22 January 2008, p. 28

1. Stephen Holden, The New York Times, 22 February 1991. 2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100411/; http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800147737/info 3. Newsweek, 22 January 2008, p. 28.

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