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Brief Bios

Mark Binder is an author, a storyteller, and a nice guy. More than 200 of his stories for young and old have been published in magazines, anthologized in books, and used on standardized tests. His "Bedtime Story Book" collection is a multigenerational masterpiece with more than 50,000 copies in print. His novel, "The Brothers Schlemiel" was serialized weekly in print for two years, and is due to be released in hardback in 2008. He is an award-winning recording artist, the founder of the American Story Theater, and teaches a college course in "Telling Lies."

Works by Mark Binder include:

Books
It Ate My Sister
The Brothers Schlemiel
The Bed Time Story Book
A Hanukkah Present
Crumbs Don't Count -- The Rationalization Diet
The Everything Bedtime Story Book

Audio Books
Classic Stories for Boys and Girls
Tall Tales, Whoppers and Lies
The Brothers Schlemiel from Birth to Bar Mitzvah
A Chanukkah Present
Dead at Knotty Oak

More than 200 stories published in magazines including Cricket, The Forward, The Family, Bostonia, Conjure, and Pizza Today .

Awards and Grants
Storytelling World Honor Award
Children's Music Web Award
iParenting Media Award
Storytelling World Honor Award
US Department of Education Grant to Train School Librarians
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Literature
RI Department of Education Innovative Project Grant

Selected articles about Mark Binder and his work...

Storytime With Mark Binder, Providence Storyteller
By Paul Pence, RI Roads.Com (4/04)
"Storytime With Mark Binder, Providence Storyteller By Paul Pence The children sit on the floor, barely able to sit still in their excitement over hearing the voice of baby bear squeek "Someone's been eating my porriage and they ate it all up!"

Holiday story session gives peace a chance
by Bryan Rourke, in The Providence Journal (12/03)
"Martial arts meets the holidays, and peace prevails..."

Binder Spins Yarns About the Ocean State and Beyond
by Donna J. Ursillo (an awesome writer of articles!) (9/03)
"This is no tall tale: Storyteller Mark Binder gives his audiences a good time..."
in the Rhode Island Parents Paper

Online Novelist has lesson for Stephen King...
Don't threaten the readers... in Mass High Tech Newspaper

Dickens For The 21st Century (OSO.COM)

Audio Review - Wise Schlemiels, Providence Sunday Journal
...Providence author Mark Binder takes the Chelm tales and gives them a spin, focusing on the adventures of identical twins Abraham and Adam Schlemiel... Wise Shlemiels

Cover Story - Providence Sunday Journal, Lifebeat Section
"Who are the Brothers Schlemiel?... They are Abraham and Adam, twins born to Jacob and Rebecca Schlemiel. They live in Chelm... Schlemiels in Cyberspace (pdf)

Cover Story - Providence Phoenix
"On weekday mornings, Mark Binder can usually be found at 729 Hope, a cafe near his home on Providence's East Side, drinking coffee and tapping out the latest chapter of his novel on a laptop. Describing the foibles of the Schlemiel family, Binder writes about a mythical 19th-century Polish village that has been a subject for Isaac Bashevis Singer and other Jewish authors for more than a century. But in contrast to the old-world setting of his novel, Binder's finished chapters are distributed to readers in the most contemporary of ways: via e-mail on the Internet..." Electric Prose (Providence Phoenix)

Other Stuff

• Tall Tales, Whoppers and Lies Press Release (7/16/02)