Mark Arax

Author, The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California

Mark Arax is an author and journalist whose writings on California and the West have received numerous awards for literary nonfiction. A former staffer at the Los Angeles Times, his work has appeared in The New York Times and the California Sunday Magazine. His books include a memoir of his father's murder, a collection of essays about the West, and the best-selling The King of California, which won a California Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize from Stanford University, and was named a top book of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Arax lives in Fresno, California.

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The Land of Dreams and Drought

August 9, 2019
The California dream, with its promise of never-ending sunshine, fertile soil and rivers running with gold, has been beckoning people west for...