Mark Rascovich(1918-1976)
- Writer
Marcus "Mark" Rascovich was born in San Francisco, California. He lived in Europe from the time he was two years old until he was twenty-one. He attended schools in Germany, England, Sweden and Paris, and was graduated from the Sorbonne.
During WWII, he spent three years as a reconnaissance pilot in the Alaskan and African theaters and concluded with transport duty on the North Atlantic. After the war, he was engaged in ocean towing, salvage work, marine research and writing.
Mr. Rascovich traveled throughout Europe and the Americas, the Near East and Africa. He held pilot licenses for land and sea aircraft and for watercraft.
In 1963, his novel "The Bedford Incident" was published and later made into a motion picture in 1965 starring Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark.
In 1970, he wrote "Bucher: My Story," with Comdr. Lloyd M. Bucher, captain of the Pueblo, a United States Navy intelligence gathering vessel seized by the North 4'Koreans.
Other books by Mr. Rascovich were "The Eagle and His Egg." a fictionalized memoir of the author's father; "The Flight of the Dancing Bear." a humorous novel about the Soviet Union, and "Falkenhorst," his last novel published in 1974. The book concerns the travails of a family during the Franco-Prussian war.
Mr. Rascovich died of a heart attack at the Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida on December 10, 1976. He was 5S years old.
During WWII, he spent three years as a reconnaissance pilot in the Alaskan and African theaters and concluded with transport duty on the North Atlantic. After the war, he was engaged in ocean towing, salvage work, marine research and writing.
Mr. Rascovich traveled throughout Europe and the Americas, the Near East and Africa. He held pilot licenses for land and sea aircraft and for watercraft.
In 1963, his novel "The Bedford Incident" was published and later made into a motion picture in 1965 starring Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark.
In 1970, he wrote "Bucher: My Story," with Comdr. Lloyd M. Bucher, captain of the Pueblo, a United States Navy intelligence gathering vessel seized by the North 4'Koreans.
Other books by Mr. Rascovich were "The Eagle and His Egg." a fictionalized memoir of the author's father; "The Flight of the Dancing Bear." a humorous novel about the Soviet Union, and "Falkenhorst," his last novel published in 1974. The book concerns the travails of a family during the Franco-Prussian war.
Mr. Rascovich died of a heart attack at the Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida on December 10, 1976. He was 5S years old.
