About The Author:

Mark Goldblatt is a novelist, columnist and book reviewer as well as a college professor at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York. He earned a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, where he completed his dissertation on the theological tensions that underlay the Protestant Reformation in England.

Goldblatt's controversial first novel, Africa Speaks, was published in 2002 to glowing reviews from Kirkus, the Newark Star Ledger and Free Williamsburg, a mixed review from Publishers Weekly, and no review whatsoever from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe or the Los Angeles Times.

Goldblatt is perhaps best known as a political commentator. He has written hundreds of opinion pieces for a combination of the New York Post, the New York Times, USA Today, the Daily News, Newsday, National Review Online and the American Spectator Online. Several of these essays have been anthologized in standard college textbooks, Across Cultures and Negotiations, and many more have been posted on popular web sites such as Arts and Letters Daily, Jewish World Review and Free Republic.  He has been a guest on the Catherine Crier Show on Court TV and done dozens of radio interviews for stations across the country and in England. His integrity has been called into question by the Village Voice - which should count for something.

Goldblatt's book reviews have appeared in The Common Review, Commentary, Reason Magazine, and National Review, and he has written feature articles for Travel and Leisure and the Westsider. His poetry has appeared in the journal Hellas, and his fiction in the Webzine Ducts. His academic articles have appeared in Philosophy Now, Academic Questions, Sewanee Theological Review, English Renaissance Prose, Issues in Developmental Education 1999, the Encyclopedia of Tudor England and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Goldblatt currently resides in midtown Manhattan, where he keeps a low profile and varies his route to work often.