Mark Johnson

Mark Allan Johnson--an unrepentant New Dealer and undaunted optimist who was born in Port Angeles, Washington and presently lives in another old mill town of Everett, Washington with his wife, Judy. He is a Cultural Irish Catholic who finds wisdom in Pope Francis, Buddha, Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Rumi, Robert Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. He has drawn inspiration from Ernest Hemingway, Paris, Bob Dylan, New York City, J.R. Tolkien, Ludwig van Beethoven, Tucson, John Steinbeck, Muddy Waters, Basho, Jack Kerouac, Hermann Hesse, Kurt Vonnegut, Frank Sinatra, Pablo Picasso, Dave Brubeck, Robert Heinlein, Vincent Van Gogh and Johann Sebastian Bach and has found reward working more than three decades with the intellectually challenged. He is looking forward to soon graduating from the Workaday World with a confidence that the best is yet to be revealed. He is a frequently published poet. His most recent release is the book of love poems, "Desert Bloom". "The Last Resort" is his first novel.