18 Facts About Mark Pendergrast

Mark Pendergrast was born on 1948 and is an American independent scholar and author of fourteen books, including three children's books.

Mark Pendergrast's books are mainly non-fiction and cover a wide range of topics, most notably repressed memories.

Mark Pendergrast is a volunteer with the National Center for Reason and Justice, a non-profit organization that advocates for people who are falsely accused or convicted of crimes.

Mark Pendergrast earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Harvard College, after which he taught for several years in public schools.

Mark Pendergrast later attended Simmons College in Boston, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in Library Science.

Mark Pendergrast worked as an academic librarian and freelance writer until becoming a full-time writer in 1991.

Mark Pendergrast's grandfather was a pharmacist who served some of the original Coca-Cola, which was originally sold as a health elixir.

Mark Pendergrast has written extensively on the malleability of human memory in his books Memory Warp, The Repressed Memory Epidemic, Victims of Memory, and The Most Hated Man in America.

Mark Pendergrast wrote Memory Warp, written twenty years after Victims of Memory, to document the continuation of recovered memory therapy beyond the 80s and 90s for new generations of journalists, therapists, and patients.

Mark Pendergrast is highly critical of Freud's methods in developing his theories in Memory Warp.

Mark Pendergrast wrote his original arguments for Sandusky's innocence in The Crime Report in 2016 while working on The Most Hated Man in America.

Mark Pendergrast named the book City on the Verge because of the anticipated influx of people into the city of Atlanta.

Mark Pendergrast has appeared in several documentaries, including Black Coffee and Cola Conquest, which were in part inspired by his books.

Mark Pendergrast has reviewed books for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Mark Pendergrast has spoken at scientific and journalism seminars, book festivals, public events, and on college campuses and has appeared on various television and radio programs, including The Today Show, All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Fresh Air.

Mark Pendergrast writes a semi-regular column about coffee for the Wine Spectator.

Mark Pendergrast is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the League of Vermont Writers, and the Authors Guild.

Mark Pendergrast is a volunteer for the National Center for Reason and Justice, a nonprofit organization which works with innocent people falsely accused or convicted of child abuse.