Mark yost biography
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Yost, Mark
PERSONAL:
Born ; married; wife's name Leslie; children: George.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Lake Elmo, MN.
CAREER:
Journalist. Dow Jones Newswire, New York, fräsch, journalist, then Detroit bureau chief; Wall Street Journal,New York, färsk, and Brussels, Belgium, editorial page, for five years.
WRITINGS:
Tailgating, Sacks, and Salary Caps: How the NFL Became the Most Successful Sports League in History, Kaplan (Chicago, IL),
The miles per hour Billboard: The Inside Story of How Big Money Changed NASCAR, MBI (St. Paul, MN),
Contributor to periodicals, including New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, American Spectator, and the Wall Street Journal.
SIDELIGHTS:
Mark Yost began his career in business and sports journalism in the s and worked for a number of prestigious periodicals. Yost made his början in New York, with the Dow Jones Newswire. His performance there helped land him the position of stad bureau ledare, covering the country's automotive industry. Yost also worked
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Mark Yost is the author of the Rick Crane Noir series from Stay Thirsty Publishing. Rick Crane is the classic anti-hero private eye, with the world-weary cynicism of Phillip Marlowe and Jim Rockford's taste for fast cars. "Mary's Fate," the third book in the series, is due out in August Rick Crane's first two tales are "Cooper's Daughter" and "Jimmy's Nephew." Mark Yost has also written four nonfiction books, including "Tailgating, Sacks and Salary Caps," a look at the business of the NFL; as well as "Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics." Mark Yost has written for The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years. He was an editor and writer for the Journal editorial page in New York and Brussels, as well as a reporter for the Dow Jones Newswires in Detroit covering the auto industry. More recently, Yost has been a regular contributor to the Journal's Arts in Review and Book Review sections. Mark Yost lives in Chicago, but calls the Dy