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Mark Lee

Mark Lee is a novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1950. After graduating from Yale University in 1973, he lived in New York City for several years where he sold glow-in-the-dark necklaces in Times Square and worked as a taxi driver and security guard.

His nonfiction and poetry has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, London Times Literary Supplement and a variety of literary journals. In the early 1980s, Lee traveled to East Africa where he was a correspondent for Reuters and the Daily Telegraph of London. Lee's plays have been produced in New York, London and Los Angeles, among othe cities. He is a vice president of PEN Center USA. Lee's first novel, THE LOST TRIBE, was published in 1998 and THE CANAL HOUSE was published in 2003.

The Canal House

Included in Book Magazine’s "50 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time."

Kirkus Reviews: "Lee spans three continents, mixing high-stakes suspense with erotic intrigue.... A gripping storyline, rich in detail, shaped by a traveler who has talked the talk and walked the walk."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "With a satisfying smack of authenticity, Lee is brilliant at capturing a whole culture in a paragraph."

Denver Post: "A story presented in prose so fine it nearly sings, peopled with characters who burn themselves into your mind and heart."

Publishers Weekly: "There’s no denying the eloquence and terror of Lee’s vistas of contemporary war in the world’s more obscure corners."

The Lost Tribe

A Barnes & Noble Discover Book

Kirkus Reviews: "Diverting and unusual...Conrad by way of Joyce Cary, with a dash of Graham Greene."

Washington Post Book World: "Taut...haunting...vivid."

The Capital Times: "An engaging story of a spiritual quest."