The Last Resort

Mark Allan Johnson-an unrepentant New Dealer and undaunted optimist born in Port Angeles, Washington, A Cultural Irish Catholic who finds wisdom in Pope Francis, Buddha, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Rumi, Robert Kennedy, Kahlil Gibran, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama and qualities to emulate in Ernest Hemingway, Paris, Bob Dylan, New York City, J.R. Tolkien, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Steinbeck, Muddy Waters, Basho, Jack Kerouac, Hermann Hesse, Kurt Vonnegut, Frank Sinatra, Pablo Picasso, Dave Brubeck, Robert Heinlein, Vincent Van Gogh and Johann Sebastian Bach. He has found reward working more than three decades with the intellectually challenged, loves his wife, Judy, and is looking forward to graduating from the Workaday World with a confidence that the best is yet to be revealed. He is a frequently published poet. ＂The Last Resort＂ is his first novel.