Marc Acito

Marc Acito’s comic debut novel, How I Paid for College, won the Oregon Book Awards’ Ken Kesey Award. It was also selected as an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times, has been optioned for film by Columbia Pictures and is translated into five languages the author cannot read. Its much-anticipated sequel, Attack of the Theater People, is now available. A regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Acito has also co-written Holidazed, a twisted Christmas play which will receive its world premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre in November.