Mark Bego

Mark Joseph Bego Mark Bego (born 23 September 1952, in Pontiac, Michigan) is a best selling author of top performers in the rock & roll and show business genres. By having more than 10 million books in print, Mark Bego has been acknowledged as "the prince of pop bios" - the best selling biographer in the rock and pop field. Bego has written 59 books, two of which have been New York Times Best Sellers. Bego has written biographers about some of entertainment's biggest stars, including: Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Billy Joel, Patsy Cline, Leonardo DiCaprio and many more.

Bego was the first author to report the entire life story of Whitney Houston in his 2012 book: Whitney Houston: The Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall of the Woman Whose Voice Inspired a Generation (Skyhorse Publishing). Released both in print and on Kindle, this book is the culmination of Bego's following Houston's musical career since the diva's days as a background singer in her mother's act in Manhattan night clubs. Bego had updated his 1986 Whitney! book in 2009 for Hannibal Books in the German language as Whitney Houston: Die Biografie, so when news of Houston's death spread publicly, Bego sprang to action, to update and create this new telling of the Houston story. The book is also released in Great Britain by Plexus simply as Whitney Houston, and will be released in French-speaking Canada, and China as well. It will also be available as an audio book in the German language.

In 2012, Mark released the third and most up-to-date version of his classic book, Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul, including new details about the legendary diva's 2010-2011 health scare, and controversial facts about Aretha's early teenage pregnancies, abusive marriage, legal problems, weight problems, and celebrity feuds. It was simultaneously published in America and in Germany. In 2011, Bego co-wrote the book Where the Action Is! with 1950s and 1960s rocker Freddy Cannon, and Dick Clark wrote the introduction.

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