Mark Seal is an American journalist and author.
Biography
Seal worked as a journalist in Texas before becoming a freelance magazine writer in 1984, a contributing editor at
Vanity Fair since 2003, and has written and co-written about 15 books.
Seal's magazine writings have appeared in
Esquire,
Playboy,
Rolling Stone,
Condé Nast Traveler,
Golf Digest,
Texas Monthly,
InStyle,
Town & Country,
Time, and
The New York Times.
[ Prior to 1984 when Seal became a freelance magazine writer, he worked as a reporter at several Texas newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News.][
]
Seal has collaborated on more than 15 non-fiction books, including Alex Spanos's Sharing the Wealth, Bo Derek's Riding Lessons, and Jerry Speziale's Without a Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization.[ He has written a number of books including Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa (2009), a biography of the adventurous life of African wildlife photographer Joan Root.][ His 2011 book, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, is about Christian Gerhartsreiter, the serial imposter who posed as a member of the Rockefeller family in what has been described as one of the longest scams in history.] The book was optioned for film in 2013.
Bibliography
Primary author
Associate writer
-
Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential (1997, Caitlyn Jenner)
-
The Gospel of Good Success: A Six-Step Program to Spiritual, Emotional and Financial Success (1999, Kirbyjon H. Caldwell)
-
Sharing the Wealth: My Story (2002, Alex Spanos)
-
Riding Lessons: Everything That Matters in Life I Learned from Horses (2002, Bo Derek)
-
Without A Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization (2003, Jerry Speziale)
See also
External links