About Scott

Scott D. Carlson is the author of Karl Marx and the Lost California Manifesto, a Kirkus Reviews “Best Indie Book of 2025,” and a “Best Booklife Review of 2025.” He has an MA in Creative Writing from New York University. A so-far failed screenwriter, he’s also been a taxi driver, a short order cook, a hospital orderly, a farmhand, an Army cook, a lawyer, a teacher, a housedad, and a freelance writer—not in that order. He lives in the Bay Area.