Mark Sullivan

Mark Sullivan was raised near Boston, Massachusetts before going to Hamilton College to study English. After graduating with his BA in 1980, Mark worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer. After two years, Mark returned to the United States to study journalism at Northwestern University. For the next several years, he worked numerous jobs related to journalism and politics. In 1990, he decided to put his job on hold on try his hand at writing. A few years later, in 1994, Mark published his first novel, The Fall Line, and in 1995, he followed it up with another, Hard News. However, it was not until his third novel, The Purification Ceremony, that Mark became a well-known writer. Since publishing The Purification Ceremony, Mark has become a household name. He’s co-authored five books with James Patterson, and his novel Beneath a Scarlet Sky is currently being adapted as a film. Most recently, Mark published a novel titled The Last Green Valley, which explores World War II from the perspective of a German family living in Ukraine.