Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author best known for his novels. Though his second novel, Only Revolutions , was nominated for the National Book Award, Danielewski is most widely known for his debut novel House of Leaves , which garnered a considerable cult following and won the New York Public Librarys Young Lions Fiction Award. He has published one novella, The Fifty Year Sword, which until rereleased by Pantheon in the United States in 2012, remained relatively obscure due to only 2000 copies being published in the Netherlands . Although several shorter works have been published, notably All the Lights of Midnight Salbatore Nufro Orejn, The Physics of Eror and Livia Bassils Psychology of Physics, Parable no9 The Hopeless Animal and the End of Nature, Clip 4, and Parable no8 Z is for Zoo, theyve almost all been completely ignored by critics . His latest project is The Familiar, an ambitious 27volume serial novel whose first installment, The Familiar, VolumeOne Rainy Day in Ma

Danielewski was born in New York City to Tad Danielewski , a Polish avantgarde film director, and Priscilla Decatur Machold. Mark was Tads second child. Christopher, the first, was born to Sylvia Daneel , Tads first wife. Mark was the first of two children born to Tad and Priscilla. Anne Decatur Danielewski, a.k.a. Poe, an American singer, songwriter, and record producer, was bornyears after Mark. When Mark was a child and young man, the Danielewski family moved around continuously for Tads various film projects. By the age of 10, Mark had lived indifferent countries because of his fathers work Africa, India, Spain, Switzerland, England and the United States. He and his sister, Poe, went to high school in Provo, Utah. Danielewski has said that this time in Utah as well as his experiences elsewhere helped him to gain an appreciation for creativity in all its forms, and the traveling showed him that there was much to be learned out there. Not much else is currently known about Mark

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