Mark Spitzer

Mark Spitzer is the author of Season of the Gar, Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West , and other books. He has appeared on the Animal Planet series River Monsters and consulted for National Geographic's Monster Fish show. Spitzer was professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and lived part-time in the Mid-Hudson River Valley until the end of his life in 2023.

Mark Spitzer is the author of Season of the Gar, Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West , and other books. He has appeared on the Animal Planet series River Monsters and consulted for National Geographic's Monster Fish show. Spitzer was professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and lived part-time in the Mid-Hudson River Valley until the end of his life in 2023. See less