Zekial Marko

Zekial Marko October 21 1933 May 9 2008 was an American writer who specialised in crime stories often under the pen name of John Trinian He was arrested during filming of Once a Thief and spent some time in prison He died of complications related to emphysema on May 9 2008 in Centralia Washington Zekial Marko was born as Marvin Leroy Schmoker on October 21 1933 in Monterey County California to Ruth Halverson and Wallace Cyril Schmoker As children Marko and his brother Kenn Davisl Kenn were neighbors of John Steinbeck in Salinas California After his parents divorced Marko moved with his mother and brother to San Francisco He attended grammar school there At the beginning of WWII Marko and his brother attended a Catholic boys boarding school in Marin County At the end of the war Marko and his brother moved back with their mother and step father Henry Davis Kenn changed his surname to his step fathers name Marko changed his name to Zekial Marko Marko a flamboyant actor later a Hollywood screenwriter from Salinas stagemanaged Goodwins opera Described as a troubled soul Marko could also be brilliant and charming and a powerful friend Marko was an integral part of a circle of Bohemians who in the mid1960s frequented Juanitas a saloon operated by its colorful namesake on the converted ferry the Charles Van Damme docked at on the Sausalito waterfront William Hjortsberg states that Marko stagemanaged Jack Goodwins opera The Pizza Pusher that was to be performed at the festival the next day According to Goodwin Marko horned in and coached the poets while they rehearsed Marko made suggestions about tone volume tempo and gesture for the Six Gallery reading of Allen Ginsbergs Howl During the late 1950s he did a stretch as a bartender at a Sausalito waterhole called The Tin Angel Born in Salinas in 1933 Trinian settled in the Bay area supplementing his writing in the 1950s by working as a bartender in a Sausalito waterhole reminiscent of a character in a Don Carpenter novel Trinian had quite a reputation at the time not all of it laudatory Pulp pundit Rick Ollerman calls him one of the most realistic of the Gold Medal writers Marko who was pals with Richard Brautigan Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac as well as most of the Beat Poets Writers and personalities of the day lived the lives he writes about John Trinian North Beach GirlScandal on the Sand Two California novels both published in 1960 North Beach Girl is a twisted tale set in the world of San Franciscos beatniks and Scandal is the story of a dozen strangers thrown together on an isolated stretch of beach with a dying whale and a sadistic cop The double reprint includes new introductions by Rick Ollerman Ki Longfellow and Belle Marko Trinians daughter the artist Belle Marko and a midvolume remembrance by the novelist Ki Longfellow who beginning when she was still a teenager was Trinians soulmate May 2014 Rick Ollermans In Pursuit of a Pleasant Oblivion originally appeared in North Beach Girl Scandal on the Sand Source Article Zekial Marko from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA