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Mark Coggins (born 1957) is the Choctaw and American author of a series of novels featuring private eye protagonist August Riordan. He is also a photographer.




Biography


Coggins was born in New Mexico in 1957 and attended Stanford University, where he earned an
undergraduate degree in International Relations, a masters in Computer Science and was elected to the
Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation.
While at Stanford, Coggins took creative writing classes with Tobias Wolff and Ron Hansen and wrote
the first short story featuring August Riordan in a class for Hansen. This was published in 1986 in The New Black Mask,
a revival of the famous Black Mask pulp magazine that launched the careers of Dashiell Hammett
and Raymond Chandler.
Coggins has worked in the Silicon Valley for such companies as Hewlett Packard and Netscape and although
Riordan as a character is something of a technophobe, Coggins' novels often explore high technology themes and
Silicon Valley culture.




Career


Coggins' first book, The Immortal Game, dealt with the theft of chess-playing software similar to that run
on Deep Blue and was nominated for the Shamus Award and the Barry Award. Runoff described a fictional mayoral election in San Francisco where the results were altered by individuals who hacked the city's electronic voting machines. The Big Wake-Up envisioned an altered version of the bizarre history of the peripatetic remains of Argentina's most famous first lady, Eva Perón, and won the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category.
Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters was somewhat of a departure. A collection of humorous essays describing episodes in his life from school, career, and relationships, it features a number of anecdotes from his childhood in Phoenix, Arizona, including the title essay, "Prom Night," the improbable story of how shy and socially-awkward Coggins brought the homecoming queen of Central High School to the senior prom.




Works






= Novels

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The Immortal Game (1999). ISBN 978-0918395177
Vulture Capital (2002). ISBN 978-0918395214
Candy From Strangers (2006). ISBN 978-1932557169
Runoff (2007). ISBN 978-1932557534
The Big Wake-Up (2009). ISBN 978-1606480557
No Hard Feelings (2015). ISBN 978-1937495909
The Dead Beat Scroll (2019). ISBN 978-1643960319
Geisha Confidential (2024). ISBN 978-1643963570




= Non-fiction

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Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters (2012). ISBN 978-0982948453




= Photography Monographs

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Street Stories (2021). ISBN 978-0918395375




External links


Official site
Review of The Immortal Game in the San Francisco Chronicle
Podcast of the first chapter of Candy from Strangers from KQED-FM




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Dua Belas Nabi
• Lapangan Terbang Canrobert
• Mr. Turner (film)
• Perjanjian Lama
• Kitab Ezra
• Kitab Nehemia
• Kitab Ezra–Nehemia
• Kritik teks (Alkitab)
• Faye Dunaway
• Mark Coggins
• Coggins
• Venture capital
• Electronic voting
• Functional electrical stimulation
• Claire Coggins
• Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Kaplan International Languages
• Richard Coggins
• Cultural depictions of Eva Perón