Mark Sundeen (born 1970) is an American author. His book ''

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'' was published by

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in 2000. His book '' The Making of Toro'' was published by

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in 2003. ''North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters'' () was released in early 2010. His nonfiction articles have appeared in The ''

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'', '' The Believer'', ''

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'' and

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. His book ''The Man Who Quit Money'' (2012) tells the story of

Suelo Daniel James Shellabarger (known as Daniel Suelo, or simply Suelo, and The Man Who Quit Money, born 1961) is an American simple living adherent who stopped using money in the autumn of 2000. He was born in Arvada, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, an ...

, currently living part-time in a cave near Moab, Utah when he is not wandering the country, who has practiced his form of

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since 2000. Sundeen was born in Harbor City, California, in 1970"Mark Sundeen" in ''

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Online''. Gale: November 16, 2004. Retrieved June 27, 2011. and grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs of Manhattan Beach and

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.Leslie, Mitchell (January/February 2001)
"Roadside Attractions: An offbeat adventurer prefers molehills to mountains."
''Stanford Magazine'' (Stanford Alumni Association). Retrieved June 27, 2011. He graduated from

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in 1992 with a degree in English and later moved to

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, Utah. He later earned a master's degree in creative writing from the

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. In 2004, Sundeen worked as a blogger for Howard Dean's presidential campaign.Green, Rick (January 19, 2004)
"At Dean Headquarters, Campaign Workers Stay Wired In A Hard Drive To Win"
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'': p. A1. Retrieved June 27, 2011. Currently living in Montana and Utah, Sundeen instructs

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programs and teaches college-level creative writing courses in addition to writing his books.

Bibliography

* Car Camping, HarperCollins, 2000 * The Making of Toro, Simon & Schuster, 2003 * The Man Who Quit Money, Riverhead, 2012 * The Unsettlers, Riverhead, 2017

References

External links

Official website
*Wallace, Chris (April 27, 2010)

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