Mark Bailey is an author and Emmy-nominated screenwriter. Bailey’s books include TINY PIE, his first children’s book, which includes a pie recipe by world-renowned chef Alice Waters, and HEMINGWAY & BAILEY’S BARTENDING GUIDE TO GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS, an illustrated tribute to the golden era of hard-drinking literary figures. Bailey also wrote AMERICAN HOLLOW, an examination of contemporary Appalachian poverty and companion to an HBO documentary feature of the same name. In addition to books, Bailey writes documentary and scripted features. His documentary films have been broadcast on HBO, Lifetime, Court TV and TLC. This year Bailey received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Ethel, an HBO documentary feature about the life of Ethel Kennedy. For this film, Bailey was also awarded the Humanitas Prize for Documentary Writing. Previous to that, Bailey received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Pandemic: Facing AIDS, an HBO five-part documentary series. Bailey’s most recent film, Last Days in Vietnam, will be broadcast on American Experience next year. Bailey is currently writing Black Panther for Marvel Studios, a live action feature adaptation based on the Marvel superhero. Bailey lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Books by Mark Bailey

Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

by Mark Bailey and Edward Hemingway - Entertainment, Food, Nonfiction

True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.