Mark Hemry:  

Life MARK HEMRY, exited Northeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri (and various Kansas City communes), for a Masters degree in Marine Botany, San Francisco State University. From 1971 to the present, I served with the U.S. Government: first in Washington, DC, as a member of the Department of Interior and then the Department of Energy; and second, from 1976--and retired in August 2005--in San Francisco as a computer programmer and retired as an ISO (Information Security Officer) in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 9. In 1997 I completed postgraduate work at Christ Church College, Oxford University, Oxford England. I am also founding owner and publisher (1984) of Palm Drive Publishing, and in 1998 won the National Small Press "Best Book of the Year" Award for the short-fiction collection: "Rainbow County and Other Stories." One of his books, the 1998 novel, "The Geography of Women: A Romantic Comedy," was a Finalist in the National Small Press Book Award for Best Fiction, 1999. As editor of "Chasing Danny Boy: Powerful Stories of Celtic Eros," I won three Best Fiction award categories in Spring, 2000. Firmly established on the worldwide web, as new kind of cyberspace writer, called an "Internet biographer." As a scholar, I insure archival storage and research access to writers, photographers, and artists important to American literary history and gay culture. Familiar with the turbulent 60s' and 70s' New York art scene of Warhol, I am the producer responsible for the first and best book about the controversial photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe, whom Senator Jesse Helms targeted to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). That book is "Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera" (1994). Some of the other dozen books which I have produced, designed, and published include the novel, "Some Dance to Remember" (1990) which has been compared by ...Expand for more