Steven Mark

Born in New York and raised in New Rochelle, NY, the middle son in a family of three boys, his wit and generous heart made him life-long friends in all corners of a diverse neighborhood. Steven was an outstanding student and collegiate athlete but suffered a neck fracture while playing football during his freshman year at Colgate University that left him a paraplegic. Undaunted by this unimaginable turn in his life, he finished college in four years and went on to graduate school to study Latin American history at UCLA. He returned to New York after graduate studies to attend Brooklyn Law School and began what would become a highly successful career in entertainment law.

Steven worked at the William Morris Agency, HBO, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, JP Kids and Broadway Digital Entertainment before launching his own practice. Many of his clients became personal friends. Besides his professional life, Steven was a keen historian whose love of Revolutionary War stories was boundless. He wrote several novels, most notably “Drift” published in 2006, as well as several articles and historical reviews in the Journal of the American Revolution. He was also the writer of Dinosaur!, a 1985 groundbreaking TV documentary narrated by the late Christopher Reeve. Steven was a great devotee of Charles Dickens and the London of that time. He was by all accounts an honorary Scotsman for his loud cheering at every Tartan Day parade in New York and his love of bagpipes and a dram of the malt.

Steven is survived by the “light of his life” Judy Chang, his beloved dog Casey, his mother Beatrice Mark, and brothers Robert and Michael, and is predeceased by his father Cy Mark. Also surviving are his children Dustin (Julie), Morgan and Raleigh, and two grandchildren, Rebecca and Matthew.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

2:00 – 5:00 pm The family will receive your condolences at Walter B. Cooke Funeral Home, 352 East 87th St. NY NY 10128

7:00 p.m. The funeral service at All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave. & 80th St., NY NY 10075

Interment

Monday, August 3, 2015

11:00 a.m.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

540 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591

(914) 631-0081

Shiva will be immediately after interment until 8:30 p.m. and Tuesday August 4, 2015 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Bea (Steve's mother) Mark

65 London Terrace, New Rochelle, NY 10804

In lieu of flowers a donation in memory of STEVEN PAUL MARK may be given to the Museum of the American Revolution, 123 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106 https://www.amrevmuseum.org/

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on of Walter B. Cooke Funeral Home, New York, NY.