The Author
Marc Sercomb lives in the foothills of Los Angeles with his wife Robin, two cats, two motorcycles, and a bay Arabian horse named Ransom. A life-long Southern Californian, he attended California State University, Northridge, where he studied Journalism and English Literature. He has been a teacher for twenty-three years.
An avid reader of both fiction and nonfiction, World War II and European history have always been of particular interest to him. Marc likes to spend his spare time watching movies with his wife and cats, hanging out with good friends, and riding his motorcycles in the beautiful mountains of the Angeles National Forest.
He wanted to write a book about the miraculous resilience of the human spirit and the unexpected kindness of strangers and enemies during dark and dangerous times. Of Picasso’s Motorcycle he says, “This story kind of haunted me for a while. That’s how I knew I had to write it.”
An avid reader of both fiction and nonfiction, World War II and European history have always been of particular interest to him. Marc likes to spend his spare time watching movies with his wife and cats, hanging out with good friends, and riding his motorcycles in the beautiful mountains of the Angeles National Forest.
He wanted to write a book about the miraculous resilience of the human spirit and the unexpected kindness of strangers and enemies during dark and dangerous times. Of Picasso’s Motorcycle he says, “This story kind of haunted me for a while. That’s how I knew I had to write it.”
A Few Thoughts on Writing Today
“My literary heroes are Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, William Blake, John Irving, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, O. Henry, James Thurber, James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard…okay, I’ll stop now. But seriously, they’re the giants, and they did it all without the internet (well, most of them, anyway). Let’s face it, we’ve got it so much easier than they did. We’re really fortunate to be living in the time of Wikipedia. If we need to know how much the toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge is, we can find it instantly. If we need to know how much it cost to book passage on a steamer to Borneo in 1933, we can find it. If we need to know how much a World War II German Mauser rifle weighed (3.7 kilos), no problem. And it’s all at our fingertips! We really live in an amazing time!"