Mark Sundeen (born 1970) is an American author. His book Car Camping was published by HarperCollins in 2000. His book The Making of Toro was published by Simon & Schuster in 2003. North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters (ISBN 978-0312591144) was released in early 2010. His nonfiction articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Outside Magazine and McSweeney's.
Sundeen was born in Harbor City, California, in 1970[1] and grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs of Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach.[2] He graduated from Stanford University in 1992 with a degree in English and later moved to Moab, Utah.[2] In 2004, Sundeen worked as a blogger for Howard Dean's presidential campaign[3] and assisted in the running of Peter Deutsch's senatorial campaign website.[4] Currently living in Montana and Utah, Sundeen instructs Outward Bound programs and teaches college-level creative writing courses in addition to writing his books.[1]