{"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 wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Sullivan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">__________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-de4c2419486e45303dd960ca89036c79 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sullivan Mark Sullivan is a principal writer and founder of Manhattan Literary. 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