Mark Arax - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Welcome to the official website of Mark Arax, the award-winning author whose books on California have been compared to the “great social portraits” by William Saroyan and Joan …
The Books - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist & Author
A comprehensive list of Mark Arax books available for purchase. Recommended by reading by top publications like —Los Angeles Times, —San Francisco Chronicle, & —The Washington …
The Author - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist & Author
In the world of journalism, Mark Arax stands out as a rarity. On one hand, he is a skilled investigative reporter who unearths secrets from the depths of shadow governments. On the …
The Dreamt Land - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion …
In My Father's Name - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist
In this riveting account of the event, Arax’s son Mark, who was 15 years old at the time and is now an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, attempts (20 years later) to solve the crime …
West of the West - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West,” and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State …
The Place - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Mark Arax shares history, memories, and stories that have been featured in national news papers. Read the stories that inspired block buster movies.
My Father's Murder: An Epilogue - Mark Arax
My father, Ara Arax, was gunned down by two strangers who walked into his nightclub in Fresno on a foggy night in January 1972. He was forty years old and I, his oldest child, was fifteen. …
The King of California - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist
Arax and Wartzman strive for evenhandedness but acknowledge the costs of Big Ag—such as evaporation ponds with selenium levels so high that ducks are born with corkscrewed beaks …
The Last Valley - Mark Arax | Award-Winning Journalist & Author
And so he began to write poems in the pen name of Arax, the mother river of Armenia, and caught the eye of a railroad magnate who was willing to pay his tuition and board. That’s when the …