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Mark Spencer is an American author, currently residing in Monticello, AR. He has published several books, including the bestselling book, A Haunted Love Story, as well as the Weary Motel, the winner of the Faulkner Award of 1996. He lives in the Allen House, a mansion in Monticello, AR. The house is supposedly haunted, and many told him and his wife Rebecca, that they didn't want to live there, due to the haunting. He is well known in Monticello, and all over the United States, for finding the lost love letters between Ladell Allen Bonner, and Prentiss Savage in the attic of the Allen House. He is famous for his discoveries, and his novels and novellas. He is currently awaiting the publishing of his new collection of short stories, Trespassers: Stories. He has four children, two of which live with him in the Allen House.

Early Life: He was born on February 12, 1956, in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He lived in a farm house, built in 1865, and had a rather independent life. He lived with two older sisters, and generally his father was never at home. Southern Ohio, the area he grew up in, was used as the location for several of his books.

Adult Life: Mark went to University of Cincinnati at the age of eighteen, and graduated after one degree. He then moved on to Bowling Green University, and got his Bachelors and Masters degree. He went to Lawton, Oklahoma after getting his Masters degree, and served as an English Professor for a few years. While teaching there, he met his wife Rebecca, where he knew her for a few years, until he married her in 2000. In 2005, they moved from Chickasha, Oklahoma, where they had lived for around four or five years, and came to Monticello, Arkansas, where he was starting a new job, as dean of arts and humanities at UAM. Him, Rebecca, and his two children lived in a rent house briefly, until they moved to the Hotchkiss House. It was the home of Sylvestor Hotchkiss, the architect of the Allen House. After living in the Hotchkiss House for a few years, they moved in to the Allen House. A few years earlier, while they were driving by the old homes, his wife Rebecca spotted the Allen House. She told Mark that she would only live in that town if he bought that house. So he bought the house, and made great discoveries. Several paranormal things happened in the house, which is told in A Haunted Love story.