Mark Scott

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BA, SLL/SEES, History, 1970; MA SEES, 1976; MA, History,1979; PhD, History, 1980

Career: University professor, government civil servant (federal, state, and local), businessman (commercial real estate development), public relations, professional writer (books, translations, articles)

Languages: French, Russian

Countries lived in: Soviet Union, United Kingdom, West Berlin, Italy (Rome)

Countries studied in: UK (Oxford), USSR (Leningrad)

Favorite place: Either Oxford, U.K., or Washington, D.C.

Favorite saying: Everyone has problems—just a different set of problems

Favorite book: Love for Lydia, by H. E. Bates 

Favorite food: leg of lamb

Favorite drink: non-alcoholic: green tea; alcoholic: German beer chased with German schnapps (Steinhager)

Where he is now: Ojai, California


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