Mark Stein (author)
Mark Stein is an American writer.
Early life and education
Raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973.Career
Stein wrote the screenplay for the Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin film Housesitter. His stage plays were first produced at New Playwrights Theater of Washington, D.C. From there he went on to productions at Actors Theater of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and elsewhere.His non-fiction book, How the States Got Their Shapes, became the basis for a History Channel series by the same name.
Works
;Published playsThe Groves of Academe and The Plumber's Apprentice, 1983At Long Last Leo, 1987Ghost Dance Direct from Death Row the Scottsboro Boys,, 2006;Film and television A Quiet Little Neighborhood, A Perfect Little Murder, NBC Movie of the Week,, October 14, 1990Housesitter, Imagine Films/Universal Studios,, 1992Chance of a Lifetime, CBS Movie of the Week,, March 29, 1998Help Wanted, Male, Episode of Nero Wolfe, 2002
;Non-fictionHow the States Got Their Shapes, How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why, Vice Capades : Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present, Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2017,, The Presidential Fringe : Questing & Jesting for the Oval Office, Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2020,,