Background
Mark Arax was born in 1956, son of Ara Arax (bar owner), who was killed in 1972.
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Mark Arax was born in 1956, son of Ara Arax (bar owner), who was killed in 1972.
Mark graduated from California State University, Fresno, California, United States.
Mark Arax worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun and the Los Angeles Times. He left the Los Angeles Times in 2007.
Mark Arax is the award-winning journalist and author whose books on California have been compared to the “great social portraits” by William Saroyan and Joan Didion. His book The King of California won a 2004 California Book Award and the 2005 William Saroyan International Writing Prize. He got the 2013 Free Speech Award for his hard-hitting reporting on the mistreatment of mentally ill inmates in the Fresno County Jail.
