―Brief Biography―
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, historian, political scientist, polymath, and polemicist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and wildly popular book entitled Did You Know That…? In addition, he is the writer of the international best-selling knowledge-based board game Twenty Questions. Moreover, he is the co-author of Khamsin: A Thriller. His next novel is entitled Lethal Action. He is also the founder of the highly praised Marko Perko Online (www.MarkoPerko.com) Web site, the creator of the Cultural Enrichment Programs, and is active in software development—www.Krypti.com.
Perko has also written for and edited numerous publications, and has worked as a columnist, speechwriter, composer, musician, lecturer, and playwright. He is a member of The Authors Guild; the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Broadcast Music, Inc.; the Biographers International Organization; the Organization of American Historians; and the British Library.
Presently, he is at work on a new-style biography entitled TESLA: His Tremendous and Troubled Life to be published by Prometheus Books. His History’s Greatest Lies & Myths “podcast for the curious” will soon go live. He is also writing other book projects, lecturing, and developing television series and films based upon his books and other intellectual properties.
Marko Perko lives in California with his wife Heather. They have two children: Marko Perko III and “Skye Mackay” Perko.
Knowledge is power!
(Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est)
—Sir Francis Bacon, 1597 (Meditationes Sacrae)
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