{"id":12,"date":"2025-03-10T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:58:11","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-367072086ab41dee9891c3339dd5812f\">Mark Sullivan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e1180007c5dc56da100a5f33aeb769e7\">Mark Sullivan is a principal writer and founder of Manhattan Literary. He was born in Manhattan and educated abroad, and later at Columbia University where he received an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and Modern Languages. He then worked for a master&#8217;s degree in Italian Literature at Columbia \u2018s Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences. After this, he went on to study classical music composition at The Juilliard School, also in Manhattan, before he entered what was to become an extensive career in American book publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-05aadbd948da5039ab5a93bf039d8788\">Mark has 30 years in the field and is a prolific writer, author and co-author of various books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-095489667652e33fc9404bf8a23c1ce8\"><strong>Come To Dust&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;( Mark Sullivan, a novel:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LecQq8\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LecQq8<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-da33b4fad492186f9e53aae8507926af\"><strong>The Decline and Fall of American Medicine<\/strong>&nbsp;(Wise and Sullivan:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2NbJBpO\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2NbJBpO<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6b358a808a0d024e69ee4acbe7ef35ed\"><strong>Comparative Religion<\/strong>&nbsp;(William P. Lazarus, Mark Sullivan \u2014 For Dummies Series, John Wiley and Sons:&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MFY00g\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MFY00g<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1f489df870a323cb1aaf2012e6939ca2\">See Mark\u2019s LinkedIn profile&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/mark-sullivan\/53\/b13\/67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">{Click}<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-78b62086d9234f5f2e525df65c5d8680\">__________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-de4c2419486e45303dd960ca89036c79\">William P. Lazarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left is-style-text-subtitle has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-54e9cb7fb4718a1204eb6aafef99793d\">William P. Lazarus&nbsp;is an independent, senior writer working with ML. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Case Western Reserve University (ABD), a Master\u2019s in journalism\/sociology from Kent State, and a B.A. in Journalism from Kent State. He taught business writing at Yale, and has also  instructed at  Case Western Reserve and other elite schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left is-style-text-subtitle has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1eb77c0427f202693197ca8a83e96e19\">Bill also worked as a journalist and is a NASCAR \/ ISC car-racing specialist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left is-style-text-subtitle has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9cf30e18d8c1a8ba9d22eed5abe23d78\">He has a lifelong interest in comparative religion and became an authority with various books on the history of the monotheistic religions. Bill is a Renaissance man, a ghost writer for hire with broad ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left is-style-text-subtitle has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fe489b910c12967c10b11db064e7cffd\">Comparative Religion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mozilla-20&amp;index=blended&amp;link%5Fcode=qs&amp;field-keywords=Comparative%20religion%20for%20dummies&amp;sourceid=Mozilla-search%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">{Click}<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left is-style-text-subtitle has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9c3098b5704bd3fbac6e1aa5ceed5277\">Sands of Time (Daytona) <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=AGo26AqNGmMC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=sands+of+time+lazarus&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=0GblbaNKbi&amp;sig=c-NOVUa0q5B6byfTAQemK_jQ0m0&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=6zhgTerZA4H68AaKg4ydDA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">{Click}<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bdeae6d01a06b4c1b7b41929272c6bb6\">Depending on necessity and subject matter, Manhattan Literary has a network of writers and journalists ready to collaborate. NYC is a rich environment for talent, and 3 decades here have given us some wonderful connections.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dawn_prism.700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dawn_prism.700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dawn_prism.700x525-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sullivan Mark Sullivan is a principal writer and founder of Manhattan Literary. He was born in Manhattan and educated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhattanliterary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}