About The Author

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Marko Perko is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He has always had an insatiable thirst for knowledge of all types, and as such, he is highly regarded as a modern-day Renaissance man, author, historian, polymath, polemicist, and history communicator. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and wildly popular book Did You Know That . . .? He is also a novelist and the writer of an international bestselling knowledge-based board game, as well as the creator of the Cultural Enrichment Programs education series, and a software developer―Krypti.com.

Perko has written for and edited numerous publications, and he has worked as a columnist, speechwriter, composer, musician, lecturer, and playwright. He is a member of The Authors Guild; the Biographers International Organization; the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Broadcast Music, Inc.; the Institution of Engineering and Technology; the British Library; and the Organization of American Historians.

Presently, Marko Perko is authoring new books as well as working on television, film, and Internet projects based upon several of his intellectual properties. His podcast History’s Greatest Lies and Myths will be available later this year. He lives in California with his wife, Heather, and their daughter, “Skye Mackay” Perko. Their son Marko Perko III lives in London, England.