About the Author

Mark L. Casper was born in 1953, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Brooklyn College where he majored in the Sciences and minored in Creative Writing. He then enlisted into the Navy at which time he served four years of active duty and two in the active reserves, at which time he was stationed in San Diego, California and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received training as a Field Medic and went to Dental Prosthetic School, where he earned a degree from the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the USN.

 After several years of total dedication, Mr. Casper reached his goal of mastering each specialty within the dental laboratory industry. In 1981, he became the owner of Casper Dental Laboratories. In 1986, the business grew to become a full service laboratory and within three years he acquired an additional location.
On June 30 1998, Mark suffered a severe accident that almost paralyzed him. The injuries required that he have major surgery on his neck. As a result, he was unable to continue working within the profession that he excelled in and loved, and ultimately had no other choice than to close his business.
Holding steadfast to his faith and his fortitude to succeed, he accepted the fact that he would have back pain the rest of his life and fought back via years of physical therapy, injections, and a plethora of ongoing visitations with medical specialists.
Mr. Casper was passionate about writing since he was a child and as fate would have it at the age of forty-five, he now had the time to polish his craft, full time.
He became a lifetime member of the National Writer’s Union, the Small Press Center in New York and joined the Bucks County Writer’s Room. He attended advanced writing classes at Rutgers University and at home he wrote seven to eight hours every day. By 2002, he had become the author of over ten short stories and novellas, and has completed three novels titled, FLOWERS AND BEYOND and DISTRAUGHT MINDS, prior to his the release of KING OF THE UNIVERSE. Though Mark is well known for his success writing in the genre of science fiction with strong spiritual themes, he enjoys expanding his sights as an author by occasionally branching out into thrillers involving space exploration, espionage and mystery.
In December of 2003, Mark decided that a move from Langhorne, Pennsylvania to South Florida, with its warm climate would help alleviate some of his back problems.
In Boca Raton, Florida, Mr. Casper went to school to attain his license as a Sales Associate in Realty and soon thereafter, became a Real Estate Broker, mainly to oversee some real estate holdings that he had acquired and to continue modestly with his entrepreneurship during the housing boom.
Of course, Mark’s greatest passion continues to be his writing and in October of 2006, he attended a Screenwriter’s Expo in Los Angeles, California, with hope to continue developing his career by directly becoming involved with Cinematography based upon his work. Mark Leo Casper was fifty-three last November, and presently resides in Delray Beach, Florida, with his lovely wife Sharon and their dog, Shayna. Mark is also very proud of his beautiful daughter Lana and his ambitious son, Sean
Mr. Casper’s belief in Spiritual Life after death, with the existence of the Human Soul and its ultimate transcendence into a Spirit; that God is within us, determines our destiny, watches over the Universe and that his miracles are evident all around us, is what inspired him to write, KING OF THE UNIVERSE!