Author Talks: Mark Strecker [A]

Join Norwalk resident Mark Strecker with his latest book release, The Great Railroad Strike in Ohio. An economic depression starting with the Panic of 1873 made life for railroad workers go from poor to intolerable. By July 1877, they could take it no more—and so began the Great Railroad Strike. It’s a story that includes Sandusky native Jay Cooke, a moral panic over the thousands of men who took to the road looking for work who were labeled “tramps,” and greedy railroad executives.

Award-winning author Mark Strecker has wanted to be a writer since he first learned to read. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor of arts degree in history in 1994 and a master’s degree in library science from Clarion University in 2008, earning the latter to give him the skills needed to write well-researched narrative history. A lifelong resident of Ohio, his greatest passions are history (no surprise there), travel, reading, and comic book collecting. On his website, www.markstrecker.com, in addition to articles, he posts travel logs about the various historic sites and museums he’s visited, most of which are in the Buckeye State.