Who is Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist.

Introducing him at the United States Senate in 2015, Ted Cruz called Mark Steyn “an international bestselling author, a Top Five jazz recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist“.

All of which happens to be true.

Mark is the author of After America, which was a Top Five bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; and his most recent bestseller, The [Un]documented Mark Steyn.

His most recent CD is his cat album, dedicated to his own beloved cat Marvin: Feline Groovy: Songs for Swingin’ Cats was a Number One jazz bestseller, a Top Twenty album on the Billboard chart, and a Top Thirty album on Amazon’s pop chart. “A Marshmallow World“, his Christmas single with Jessica Martin, reached Number Seven on Amazon’s easy listening bestsellers, and Number 41 on their main pop chart. Their subsequent full-length Christmas album, Making Spirits Bright, reached Number Four on the jazz chart. “Nine Lives“, the song he co-wrote with Kevin Amos, was a Top Thirty smash on the Moldovan Hit Parade. Thank you, Moldova!

Steyn’s human rights campaign to restore free speech to Canada led to the repeal by Parliament of the notorious “Section 13” hate-speech law, a battle he recounts in his book Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West.

In the United Kingdom The Mark Steyn Show airs every evening Monday to Thursday on GB News. Mark also presents Steyn’s Song of the Week every Sunday afternoon on Serenade Radio. In New York he can be heard with his longtime EIB comrade, Bo Snerdley, every Tuesday on 77 WABC.

For a decade and a half until Rush’s death, Mark was a hugely popular guest-host of America’s Number One radio showย The Rush Limbaugh Program. He was also a favorite guest-host of America’s Number One cable showย Tucker Carlson Tonight, and hosted its lead-in-showย Fox News Primetime. Heย regularly drewย some of theย highest ratingsย inย all US televisionย asย a host for Tuckerย and other top shows.

With fans around the world, Steyn has appeared on stages across the planet from Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His 2016 nationwide tour of Australia was sold out coast to coast. He has spoken in the Canadian Parliament, the Ontario Parliament, the Danish Parliament, and the Australian Parliament, where he was introduced by the then Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop.

Over the years, Mark’s writing on politics, arts and culture has been published in almost every major newspaper around the English-speaking world, including Britain’s Daily Telegraph, Canada’s National PostThe AustralianThe Irish TimesThe Jerusalem PostThe Wall Street Journal, and many more.

Mark’s other books includeย A Song For The Season,ย Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade,ย Mark Steyn From Head To Toeย andย The Face Of The Tiger. His personal view of musical theatre,ย Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, is an acknowledged classic published to critical acclaim in London, and to somewhat sniffier notices in New York.

If you clickย here, you can find the answers to severalย FAQsย about Mark. You can learn more about him in thisย interviewย by Simon Mann fromย The Ageย in Australia and in thisย appreciationย by Robert Fulford in Canada’sย National Post. For more on his approach to the writing life, read thisย interviewย with Michele Kirsch of Britain’s Channel 4, and enjoy the end result in theseย quotable barbsย as collected by Brian McDermott in Dublin, in John Hawkins’ย Best of Steynย from recent columns, or in Greg Ransom’sย Quotable Steyn.

Mark Steyn’s Website

FAQs regarding Mark Steyn

Interview by Simon Mann from The Age in Australia

Mark Steyn, Opinionmonger by Robert Fulford

Quotable Barbs from Mark Steyn

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