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Mark McGinty

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Born
in Greensboro, NC, The United States
September 10, 1975

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Mario Puzo, J.G. Ballard, George Lucas, J.R.R. Tolkien

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June 2010


Mark Carlos McGinty is a descendant of Cuban cigar makers whose work has appeared in Maybourne Magazine, Montage Magazine, Cigar City Magazine, Germ Warfare and La Gaceta. His second novel "The Cigar Maker" won a Bronze Medal at the 2011 Independant Publisher Book Awards and was named Finalist at both the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards and the 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards.


He graduated from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and got his Master’s degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati. Mark lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter.

Mark welcomes your comments and feedback. Email him at mmcginty_32@yahoo.com
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Running Through This Place

A friend once told me, “The best way to explore a new place is to go for a run and experience things up close.” You can cover a lot of ground and see what’s inside all those buildings you pass as you drive by. You can see what the view is like across the lake if you just stop for a minute and look. What smells do you smell? What are the people like? How do they dress? What are they talking about?

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The Cigar Maker

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Home to Nagasaki: Part 1

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“A man should not measure his success in life by the type of work he does, or by the medals he has won, but by the impact he has had on those around him, especially his family.”
-Salvador Ortiz to his son Lazaro”
Mark McGinty, The Cigar Maker

“No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.”
Mark McGinty , The Cigar Maker

“Cigars are society. They are the food you eat and the bed where you sleep. They are the clothes you wear and the shoes on your feet. Cigars are, at the very least, responsible for everything you and I have.”
Mark McGinty, The Cigar Maker
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“A man should not measure his success in life by the type of work he does, or by the medals he has won, but by the impact he has had on those around him, especially his family.”
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“No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.”
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