Mark's bio

Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist. That's to say, his latest book, After America (2011), is a Top Five bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; and "A Marshmallow World", his Christmas single with Jessica Martin reached Number Seven on Amazon's easy listening bestsellers, and Number 41 on their main pop chart. His human rights campaign to restore free speech to Canada led to the repeal by Parliament of the notorious "Section 13" law, a battle he recounts in his book Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West.

Mark is also a visiting fellow of Hillsdale College; and a popular guest host of America's Number One radio show The Rush Limbaugh Program, and America's Number Two cable show Hannity. In addition, his writing on politics, arts and culture can be read each week throughout much of the English-speaking world. In the United States, he serves as National Review's Happy Warrior. In Canada, he is a contributing editor to Maclean's, the Dominion's oldest and biggest-selling news weekly. Mark also chips in at The Corner, writes a syndicated column, and appears each week on The Hugh Hewitt Radio Show .

Mark's other books include America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; plus A Song For The Season, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade, Mark Steyn From Head To Toe and The Face Of The Tiger. His personal view of musical theatre, Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, was published to critical acclaim in London, and to somewhat sniffier notices in New York.

If you click here, you can find the answers to several FAQs about Mark. You can learn more about him in this interview by Simon Mann from The Age in Australia and in this appreciation by Robert Fulford in Canada's National Post. For more on his approach to the writing life, read this interview with Michele Kirsch of Britain's Channel 4, and enjoy the end result in these quotable barbs as collected by Brian McDermott in Dublin, or in John Hawkins' Best of Steyn from recent columns, or in Greg Ransom's Quotable Steyn.