1. Mark Leyner was born on January 4,1956 and is an American postmodernist author.
10 Facts About Mark Leyner
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Mark Leyner was born in Jersey City, NJ to a Jewish family.
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Mark Leyner is the son of Joel and Muriel Leyner, who had divorced by 1997.
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Mark Leyner was briefly married to Arleen Portada, before marrying his second wife, Mercedes and having a daughter, Gabrielle.
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Mark Leyner's stories are generally humorous and absurd, with bizarre juxtapositions of people, places and things reminiscent of a Mad Lib.
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At the sentence level, Mark Leyner uses sprawling imagery and an extravagant vocabulary, bordering on prose poetry.
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Mark Leyner has worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines, and as a writer for the MTV program Liquid Television.
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Mark Leyner co-wrote and voiced a short-lived series of audio fiction called Wiretap.
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Mark Leyner studied with noted post-modern author Steve Katz at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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Mark Leyner is credited with co-authoring the screenplay of War, Inc.