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Mark Hazard Osmun (July 1952 –) is an American author and journalist who often wrote for ″The San Francisco Chronicle″ and ″USA Today″. Early life[edit]

Osmun was born in 1952 and raised alternately in McLean, Virginia and Honolulu, Hawaii, where he attended Punahou School and later graduated cum laude in English from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is an avid surfer and golfer. He has been a member of the Outrigger Canoe Club in Honolulu since 1965.

Career[edit]

Osmun wrote for many publications including the ″Arlington News″, ″Ft. Collins Coloradoan″, ″Honolulu Advertiser″, ″San Francisco Examiner″, and ″USA Today." His subjects included sports, politics, travel, and foreign correspondence. He wrote two novels: "Marley’s Ghost" and "After the Bones"and three nonfiction books including ″The Honolulu Marathon″ and two biographies: ″Dancer″ and ″Bob Gong and the American Dream″. He also edited the nonfiction letters of a World War II photo reconnaissance pilot entitled ″V-Mail″. His foreign correspondence from South Africa for the ″San Francisco Examiner″ during the apartheid unrest earned an H.L. Mencken Award finalist status in 1986. He also worked in advertising and public relations, winning an Addy Award and a Silver Anvil in those professions respectively.

Awards and honors[edit] 1976 Featured poem at Hawaii Writers Conference. 2009 Addy Award (Lexington, Kentucky), ″Curlin: Breed Apart″ 2010 Silver Anvil Award, PRSA, ″A Really Goode Job.″ 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award, George Mason University Communications Department.

Books[edit] Osmun, Mark (1979). ″The Honolulu Marathon″. Harper & Row/Lippincott. ISBN 9780397013227 Osmun, Mark (2000). ″Marley’s Ghost″. Twelfth Night Press. ISBN 9780967307909 Osmun, Mark (2005). ″After the Bones″. Twelfth Night Press. ASIN: B016Z3EZUG Osmun, Mark (2011). ″Bob Gong and the American Dream″. ASIN: B005882RQY Osmun, Mark and Valerie Carpenter (2015) ″Dancer″, ISBN-13: 978-0692538692