Harry Mark Petrakis

Harry Mark Petrakis is the author of twenty-one books, including novels, short story collections and books of essays. One of the novels, " A Dream of Kings," was made into a major motion picture. Twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, he has also lectured extensively in the old bardic tradition and taught at numerous writers' conferences. He has held appointments at Ohio University as McGuffy Visiting Lecturer and San Francisco State University as Nikos Kazantzakis Professor in Modern Greek Studies.