Mark Sundeen

About The Author

Mark Sundeen teaches at the University of Montana. He is the author of five other books about the American West, including, mostly recently, Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West (UNM Press). He is a contributing editor for Outside Magazine, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, The Believer, and Best American Essays.

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Books by Mark Sundeen

Car Camping

A True Novel of the Weird '90s

By Mark Sundeen

For fans of Jack Kerouac and Nomadland, from the author of The Man Who Quit Money, this road-trip novel puts the auto in autofiction as it crisscrosses the late-nineties Southwest in search of authenticity and adventure.

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Delusions and Grandeur

Dreamers of the New West

By Mark Sundeen

Shortlisted for the 2026 Reading The West Book Award in Memoir/Biography

Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

From the author of bestseller The Man Who Quit Money, this collection of personal essays recounts 20 years of Mark...

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