Mark Spragg

 

 

Spragg, Mark

1952 -

Cody, WY

Email address

Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Spragg/65280181276

Park County

 

Biographical and Professional Information

 

Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. All three were top-ten Book Sense selections and have been translated into fifteen languages. His newest book, Bone Fire, will be in bookstores on March 9, 2010.   

 

Genres

 

Essay

Fiction

Nonfiction

Wyoming Subjects

 

Titles

 

          

  • Bone Fire (March, 2010). New York: Knopf.  ISBN: 9780307272751.

 

 

           

  • An Unfinished Life (2004). New York: Knopf. ISBN: 1400042011.

 

 

          

  • The Fruit of Stone (2002). New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN: 1573229938.

 

 

      

  • Where Rivers Change Direction (1999). Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. ISBN: 0874806178.

 

  • Thunder of the Mustangs: Legend and lore of the wild horses (1997). San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books. ISBN: 0871569744.

 

Speaking Engagements

Accepts speaking engagements.

Contact: knopfpublicity@randomhouse.com

              212-572-2104

 

Links

Excerpt from speech at MPBA Trade Show:

http://www.mountainsplains.org/Blog/post/Mark-Spragg-Excerpt-from-Author-Breakfast-for-Literacy-Speech-at-the-Trade-Show-September-26-2009.aspx

 

Feature article in the Fall 2004 Wyoming Library Roundup PDF 4.13 MB