Mark booth author biography assignment

PERSONAL:

Born 1955, in Cambridge, England. Education: Attended Oxford University, 1974-77.

CAREER:

Waterstone's, bookseller and cofounder of Waterstone's publishing, 1983; Sidgwick and Jackson publishers, cofounder of Lennard Publishing, 1986; Century Publishing, began as editorial director, 1988, became publishing director, 2000.

WRITINGS:

(Also published under the pseudonym Jonathan Black) The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies, Overlook Press (New York, NY), 2008.

SIDELIGHTS:

Mark Booth has worked as an editor and publishing director at Century Publishing.

Indeed, he began his career as a bookseller at Waterstone's before being asked to create an imprint for the bookstore. From there, Booth became a well-established publishing executive. Because Booth has had a twenty-year career in the British publishing industry, he secretly wrote his first book, The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the