Mark Thorson’s life history is as varied and eventful as his writing reflects.  As a teen, he hitch-hiked and jumped freight trains across the country, became a wilderness adventurer — then later, a Hawaiian surf bum, a Sunday school teacher and a small time concert promoter.  

Initially a playwright, Thorson’s writing career launched when his first play, To Cheat A Clown, was produced at the Pan Andreas Theater in Los Angeles, which soon evolved into a career of writing screenplays, two of which were sold under option, which paid his Hollywood rent for several years.

His writing gradually evolved into prose which allowed him to return to his roots in northern Minnesota, where he also became a successful businessman, presiding over the highway construction company, Mark Sand & Gravel Co.

Thorson now lives in northern Minnesota and southern California, where he is currently at work on the novel, American Ice, a story that includes characters from three of the stories in Final Delivery — The Fifty Dollar Assassin, A Trip Back Down and The Gift.  

Thorson’s formal education includes both the arts and commerce.  He is an alumnus of both the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, as well as the Harvard Business School in Boston.