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Mark Scheel

5738 Maple Drive
Mission, Kansas, United States

Email: markscheel@hotmail.com

Mark Scheel was born and raised on a farm
in rural, east-central Kansas. After graduating from
the University of Kansas in 1967, and spending a period
"on the road," he served overseas with the American
National Red Cross in Vietnam, Thailand, Germany and
England. He later took graduate studies and taught at
Emporia State University. More recently he was an
information specialist with the Johnson County Library in
Shawnee Mission, Kansas, and a member of the board of
directors of Potpourri Publications Company. He now
writes full time and has served as a volunteer on the editorial staff of Kansas
City Voices magazine. His stories, articles and poems have
appeared in numerous magazines, and he is coauthor of
the book OF YOUTH AND THE RIVER: THE MISSISSIPPI
ADVENTURE OF RAYMOND KURTZ, SR. His most
recent book, A BACKWARD VIEW: STORIES AND
POEMS, won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award
from the Kansas Authors Club. Other selections from his
writing can be found on Mises.org as well as
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/poetry/ and
http://markscheel.gather.com/ .
Additional biographical information is available in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.

Interests: Current events, investments, literature, poetry, politics, religion, sports.

Published writer: Yes

Freelance: Yes

 

Published works:

Fiction

  • A Backward View: Stories and Poems
  • Nonfiction

  • Of Youth and the River: the Mississippi Adventure of Raymond Kurtz, Sr.
  • Death and Dying: Hemingway's Predominant Theme