Mark Arax is a journalist and nonfiction author who writes about California.Arax was a staffer at the Los Angeles Times, and left in 2007 after a public fight over censorship of his story on the Armenian Genocide. He has taught literary non fiction at Claremont McKenna College and Fresno State University.Arax's work has appeared in The New York Times and the California Sunday Magazine.His first book, a memoir of his father's murder, "In My Father's Name," was published in 1997. His second book, "The King of California," was published in 2005, won a California Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize from Stanford University, and was named a top book of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. His most recent book, "The Dreamt Land" was published in 2019.Arax received his degrees from Fresno State and Columbia University.