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Mark Coggins is the American author of a series of novels featuring private eye protagonist August Riordan. == Biography == Coggins was born in New Mexico in 1957 and attended Stanford University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in International Relations, a masters in Computer Science and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.〔(Official Bio ), markcoggins.com.〕〔(Noir Guy ), stanfordalumni.org, January 2008.〕 While at Stanford, Coggins took creative writing classes with Tobias Wolff and Ron Hansen and wrote the first short story featuring August Riordan in a class for Hansen. This was published in 1986 in ''The New Black Mask'', a revival of the famous Black Mask pulp magazine that launched the careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.〔(Back to Black, Part IV ), therapsheet.blogspot.com, November 27, 2007.〕 Coggins has worked in the Silicon Valley for such companies as Hewlett Packard and Netscape 〔(Actuate Names Mark Coggins as New Senior Vice President of Engineering ), actuate.com, October 20, 2003.〕 and although Riordan as a character is something of a technophobe, Coggins' novels often explore high technology themes and Silicon Valley culture.〔(How Greedy Was My Valley? ), salon.com, September 18, 2002.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Coggins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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