Mark Matousek

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Full Name	Mark Matousek
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Feb 5, 1957(1957-02-05)
Age	67
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aquarius

Mark Matousek Biography

Mark Matousek is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on February 5, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Mark Matousek (born February 5 1957) is an American writer, teacher and journalist.

Infatuated by the oriental philosophy, specifically Buddhism Matousek switched his focus away from popular culture and into religion, psychology and spirituality as an editor-in-chief of Common Boundary Magazine, where his column on the back of the magazine, The Naked Eye, ran from 1994 until 1999. Then, he won an National Magazine Award nomination for “America’s Darkest Secret” (about the epidemic of incest across America). He also wrote for the U.S.) and published essays in a variety of magazines such as The New Yorker, Details, O: The Oprah Magazine, Tricycle, The Utne Reader, AARP Magazine, Out, Good Housekeeping, Yoga Journal, McCalls as well as Harper’s Bazaar. The author’s Ethical Wisdom blog is published frequently within The Huffington Post and Psychology Today online.

Following his collaboration with Sogyal Rimpoche for The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Matousek worked along with author Andrew Harvey on Dialogues With A Modern Mystic (1994) Later, he interviewed Harvey for an British documentary with the same title. The next book he wrote, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story (1996) was an international bestseller, published in 10 countries, and was nominated to win Two Books for a Better Life Awards. In 2000, he released The Boy He left Behind A Man’s Search for his Lost Father (Los Los Angeles Times Discovery Book, Randy Shilts Award, and excerpted in The Observer) and served as co-editor of the book by Ram Dass Still Here.” The book When you’re falling, dive: Lessons in the Art of Living was published in 2008 and featured autobiographical essays by writers such as Joan Didion, Stanley Kunitz, Andrew Solomon, and James Hillman, as well spiritual leaders such as Matthew Fox, Byron Katie, Eckart Tolle et al. In 2011, Matousek released Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, a research study of morality in the human race.

Mark Matousek Net Worth

Mark Matousek is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Matousek 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Matousek was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, James Matousek, disappeared when he was just four years old and left the family in desperate need as was his sister Marcia took her own life in 1978. He graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Berkeley from 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude) as well as a Fellowship for Worcester College, Oxford in 1979 and a master’s diploma of English Literature from UCLA in 1981.

In 1981, Matousek was transferred into New York City, working as a stringer who covered popular culture for Reuters as well as in the letters department at Newsweek Magazine. He was recruited to work on Andy Warhol’s Interview in 1982, initially as a proofreader, then their first executive editor. In the following three yearsMatousek would conduct thousands of interviews with notable people in television, film and books, as well as fine art design, politics and science. Bewildered by the death of close friends who died from AIDS He resigned from his job in 1985 . He was an unreliable dharma bum as well as a freelance journalist who lived across Europe, India, and the United States.

In 2009 Matousek became creative director of V-Men, the male arm of playwright Eve Ensler’s organization for ending violence against women and girls (V-Day), and curator of their online essay series (www.vday.com). His autobiographical essay “Rescue” (included in A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer) has been performed internationally. He moderated the men’s panel at the New Orleans Superdome for V to the Tenth in 2008. Matousek is currently working on a theatrical piece called Breaking Out the Man Box (with playwright James Lecesne), which will serve as V-Men’s artistic vehicle (as Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” launched V-Day). A popular writing instructor, he has taught memoir at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, as well as the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, and The New York Open Center. Matousek is a member of PEN International and a core faculty member of Old Stone Farm, a wellness center in Staatsburg, New York.

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