CHICAGO — Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park, Illinois, and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications,
Chicago was, as the author puts it in print, “an unusual hothouse for creativity,” and he explains the reasons why and where, which was mostly in small taverns and clubs.
The past haunts the cross street of Well Street and North Avenue in Chicago, but 'Mark Twain and the Laughing River' performer Jim Post says such memories need not be sad ones.
Chicago performer Corky Siegel said, “I think he was just the greatest in the Chicago folk scene.” He later reinvented himself, writing and performing in one-man plays about Mark Twain.