Steven Paul Mark, attorney, author, and avid historian, passed away on July 29, 2015 at his home in Manhattan. He was 68 years old.
Born in New York and raised in New Rochelle, NY, the middle son in a family of three boys, his wit and generous heart made him life-long friends in all corners of a diverse neighborhood. Steven was an outstanding student and collegiate athlete but suffered a neck fracture while playing football during his freshman year at Colgate University that left him a quadriplegic. Undaunted by this unimaginable turn in his life, he finished college in four years and went on to graduate school to study Latin American history at UCLA. He returned to New York to attend Brooklyn Law School and began what would become a highly successful career in entertainment law.
Steven worked at the William Morris Agency, HBO, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, JP Kids and Broadway Digital Entertainment before launching his own practice. Many of his clients became personal friends. Besides his professional life, Steven was a keen historian whose love of Revolutionary War stories was boundless. He wrote several novels, most notably “Drift” published in 2006, as well as several articles and historical reviews in the Journal of the American Revolution. He was also the writer of Dinosaur!, a 1985 groundbreaking TV documentary narrated by the late Christopher Reeve. Steven was a great devotee of Charles Dickens and the London of that time. He was by all accounts an honorary Scotsman for his loud cheering at every Tartan Day parade in New York and his love of bagpipes and a dram of the malt.
Steven is survived by his partner "light of my life" Judy Chang, his mother Beatrice Mark, and brothers Robert and Michael, and is predeceased by his father Cy Mark. Also surviving are his children Dustin (Julie), Morgan and Raleigh, and two grandchildren, Rebecca and Matthew as well as his beloved dog Casey.
FUNERAL Sunday, August 2, 2015
INTERMENT Monday, August 3, 2015
DETAILS ON FIRST PAGE UNDER "ABOUT"