A Close Look at Edgar Allen Poe's Death with Mark Dawidziak

<p>Mark Dawidziak's journalism career spans 45-years. A journalism graduate of George Washington University, Dawidziak worked as a theater, film and television critic for such newspapers as the Akron Beacon Journal and Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer. In 1983, after stints as the arts and entertainment editor at the Bristol Herald-Courier in Bristol, Virginia, and the Kingsport Times-Times in Kingsport, Tennessee, he moved to the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, as that newspaper’s TV critic (later becoming its film critic and critic-at-large). He joined the The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1999, beginning a 21-year run as that newspaper’s television critic. A member of the Television Critics Association’s board of directors for five years, he won five Cleveland Press Club awards for entertainment writing, as well as a Society of Professional Journalists award for coverage of minority issues. In 2015, he was inducted into the Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame.Dawidziak has written two non-fiction books about beloved TV characters: The Columbo Phile: A Casebook (The Mysterious Press, 1989; reprinted by Commonwealth Books in 2019), a history of Peter Falk’s Lt. Columbo, and The Night Stalker Companion: A 25th Anniversary Tribute (Pomegranate Press, 1997), a history of the Carl Kolchak character played by Darren McGavin in two TV movies and the 1974-75 ABC series. His 2003 book, Horton Foote’s The Shape of the River: The Lost Teleplay About Mark Twain (Applause Books), details the 1960 Playhouse 90 production on CBS. Everything I Need to Know I Learned in The Twilight Zone, his lighthearted tribute to Rod Serling’s classic anthology series, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2017. He is a member of the board of directors for the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation.As an actor and director, he has played Mark Twain and Charles Dickens in productions staged by the Largely Literary Theater Company,Website <a href="http://markdawidziak.com">markdawidziak.com</a>Books Everything I Need to Know I Lea