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About Mark Kurlansky
American journalist and author
Mark Kurlansky is an American journalist and author. He is known for writing both fiction and nonfiction, and for books that reached a wide international readership. His 1997 book Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World became an international bestseller and was translated into more than fifteen languages. He also wrote Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea, which won the nonfiction prize for the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
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Books by Mark Kurlansky
Salt
2002
COD; A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
1997
The Basque
2006
Big Oyster New York in the World
2006
The Food of a Younger Land
2009