Known principally for his writing on television, film, and popular culture, David Marc is currently at work on his seventh book. It concerns "The Syracuse Eight," a group of African American student athletes on the Syracuse University football team who, in 1970, protested racial bias at a school known for fostering such breakthrough stars as Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, and Floyd Little. Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture, his first book, was published in 1984 and a second edition, containing added material, was brought out in 1998. Our Movie Houses, a collaboration with Norman O. Keim, was named "book of the year" for 2008 by the Theatre Historical Society of America. Reviews of David's books have appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, on National Public Radio, and elsewhere. His feature articles, essays and reviews have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The Village Voice, Television Quarterly and a long list of periodicals ranging from academic journals to airline magazines. He has contributed chapters to more than a dozen critical anthologies, including, most recently, Reading Mad Men (ed. Gary Edgerton). He has written more than 100 articles and biographical portraits for reference works, including Oxford's American National Biography (www.anb.org), Scribner's American Lives, Grolier's, and Microsoft Encarta. An experienced editor and ghost writer, he offers private tutoring in writing to business executives, scientists, and others interested in improving their skills. A graduate of Binghamton University, Marc holds a doctorate in American studies from the University of Iowa. He has taught at Brown, Brandeis, Cal Tech, USC, UCLA, UC-San Diego, and Syracuse University.