Mark Jacobson

Mark Jacobson (b.1948) is an American author and writer. Jacobson graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and achieved recognition in New York City whilst writing for the Village Voice in the 1970s, most particularly for a lurid account of life in the Chinatown Ghost Shadows gang. His books include his debut novel and cult classic Gojiro (1992), a Godzilla story; the autobiographical Jacobson family travel saga co-authored with daughter Rae Jacobson 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time – a Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe; the novel Everyone and No One; a collection of previously published pieces Teenage Hipster in the Modern World..., which includes the "Ghost Shadows" Village Voice articles; The KGB Bar...