Mark Jacobson (b.1948) is an American author living in Brooklyn, New York. He grauated from the University of California, Berkeley. Achieved recognition in New York City while writing for the Village Voice in the 1970's, most particularly for a lurid account of life in the Chinatown Ghost Shadows gang. Works include the cult favorite Godzilla epic Gojiro; the autobiographical Jacobson family travel saga 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time- a Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe; a novel "Everyone and No One"; a collection of articles including the Ghost Shadows VOICE story entitled "Teenage Hipster in the Modern World..."; The KGB Bar Nonfiction Reader; "American Monsters" (edited with Jack Newfield) and the newly reissued American Gangster the basis for a 2007 film starring Denzel Washington. Jacobson was awarded the 2001 Humanitas Prize for his screenplay work on The Believer. Jacobson is currently a contributing Editor at New York Magazine and a frequent contributor to The Village Voice, National Geographic, Natural History Magazine, Men's Journal as well as other publications. Jacobson was admitted to a Mardi Gras krewe in New Orleans (Bywater Bone Boys) on Mardi Gras day in 2005 and is a frequent visitor to the Crescent City.