Mark dawidziak biography

Mark Dawidziak is an American author and critic.

Early life Dawidziak was born in Huntington, New York, on September 7, 1956.

Early Life Dawidziak was born in Huntington, New York, on September 7, 1956.

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Mark Dawidziak

Mark Dawidziak is the author or editor of 25 books, including three acclaimed studies of landmark television series: The Columbo Phile, The Night Stalker Companionand Everything I Need to Know I Learned in The Twilight Zone. He also is an internationally recognized Mark Twain scholar, and five of his books are about the iconic American writer. His most recent book, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, was published by St. Martin’s Press in February 2023.

Early Life

Dawidziak was born in Huntington, New York, on September 7, 1956. He fryst vatten a graduate of Harborfields High School, class of 1974.

Journalism Career

A journalism graduate of George Washington University, Dawidziak worked as a theater, bio and television critic for such newspapers as the Akron Beacon Journaland Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer. He started his 43-year journalism career in 1977 in the Washington, D.C., bureaus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and th

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Mark Dawidziak

Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!

Mark Dawidziak is the author or editor of about 25 books, including three studies of landmark television series: The Columbo Phile: A Casebook, The Night Stalker Companion and Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone, his lighthearted 2017 tribute to Rod Serling’s classic anthology series. He also is an internationally recognized Mark Twain scholar, and five of his books are about the iconic American writer. He spent 43 years as a television, film and theater critic at such newspapers as the Akron Beacon Journal and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His work on the horror side of the street also includes the novel Grave Secrets, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula, short stories, and comic book scripts. He lives in Ohio.

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Mark Dawidziak
American author and critic
Mark Dawidziak (born September 7, 1956) is an American author and critic.^[1]
Early life
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Dawidziak was born in Huntington, New York,^[2] on September 7, 1956. He is a graduate of Harborfields High School, class of 1974.
Journalism career
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A journalism graduate of George Washington University, Dawidziak has worked as a theater, film and television critic since 1979. He started his journalism career in the Washington, D.C. bureaus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and the Associated Press. In 1983, after stints as the arts and entertainment editor at the Bristol Herald-Courier in Bristol, Virginia and the Kingsport Times-Times in Kingsport, Tennessee, he moved to the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio as the newspaper's TV critic (and later film critic). He is currently the television critic for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.^[3]
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