Mark leyner john cusack biography

          Mark Leyner.

          Leyner dropped away from the literary world..

          Mark Leyner

          American postmodernist author

          Mark Leyner (born January 4, 1956) is an American postmodernist author.

          Biography

          Mark Leyner was born in Jersey City, NJ to a Jewish family.

          He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997.

          He was born in Jersey City and grew up in suburban New Jersey, the son of an attorney.

        1. Actor John Cusack and director Mark Leyner took some time out of their publicity tour for “War, Inc.” to talk to Reel Progress about the film.
        2. Leyner dropped away from the literary world.
        3. John Cusack.
        4. “Stephen King is a great writer to work with,” Cusack told a fan who asked him about “Doing a version of Cell with War, Inc. writer Mark Leyner.
        5. Leyner received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1977 and a M.F.A. from University of Colorado in 1979. He was briefly married to Arleen Portada, before marrying his second wife, Mercedes and having a daughter, Gabrielle.[1]

          Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction.

          His stories are generally humorous and absurd, with bizarre juxtapositions of people, places and things reminiscent of a Mad Lib. Leyner incorporates many medical references throughout his work.

          In The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Mark's father survives a lethal injection at the hands of the New Jersey penal system, and so is freed but must live the remainder of his life in fear of being executed, at