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Mark Stein (born 1951) is an American writer. Raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973. Stein wrote the screenplay for the Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin film ''Housesitter.'' His stage plays were first produced at New Playwrights Theater of Washington, D.C. From there he went on to productions at Actors Theater of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and elsewhere. His non-fiction book, ''How the States Got Their Shapes'', became the basis for a History Channel series by the same name. ==Works== ;Published plays * ''The Groves of Academe'' and ''The Plumber's Apprentice'' (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 1983 * ''At Long Last Leo'' (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 1987 * ''Ghost Dance'' (New York: Playscripts Ltd., 2003) * ''Direct from Death Row the Scottsboro Boys,'' (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 2006 ;Film and television * ''A Quiet Little Neighborhood, A Perfect Little Murder'', NBC Movie of the Week, (dir. Anson Williams; starring Teri Garr, Robert Urich), October 14, 1990 * ''Housesitter'', Imagine Films/Universal Studios, (dir. Frank Oz; starring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn), 1992 * ''Chance of a Lifetime'', CBS Movie of the Week, (dir. Deborah Reinish; starring John Ritter, Jean Stapleton), March 29, 1998 * ''Help Wanted, Male'', Episode of Nero Wolfe (dir. Timothy Hutton; starring Timothy Hutton, Maury Chakin, Bill Smitrovich, Larry Drake), 2002 ;Non-fiction * ''How the States Got Their Shapes'' (New York: Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2008) * ''How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines'' (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2011) * ''American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why'' (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2014) 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 Stein (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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