MARK CORNWALL
AUTHOR & STORYTELLERWelcome to MARK’S WALKABOUT, a memoir trilogy written by Mark S. Cornwall.
What you are about to read isn’t just his story – it’s yours. It’s about family, the forces that shape us, and what we choose to do with the lives we are given.
This is the journey of a boy forged by a fractured family, who sought out being tested by life’s physical and emotional summits and was transformed by the wild ride.
You could say MARK’S WALKABOUT takes you to the emotional summit and casts you into the wind – so you, too, can learn to fly.
Told with emotional authenticity and vivid, visual storytelling, these memoirs draw from lived experiences, sharpened with humor and honesty. By their nature they’ll answer all the big questions in life.
“From fractured fissure to surviving gem, you transform on a journey that spans the globe.”
New Book from Mark Cornwall
About the Book
VOLUME THREE OF MARK’S WALKABOUT
FRACTURED FAMILY – This volume concludes Mark’s memoir trilogy. It follows Travels with D’Arcy “To Alaska and Back” and My Seven Summits “A Stroke is Upon Me.” Fractured Family returns to the origin point of the story—the year the Cornwall household was torn apart by the stigma of sister Suzan’s diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenic.
In 1969, at twenty-three, Suzan was committed to the notorious “Snake Pit” at Patton State Mental Hospital, in San Bernardino, CA. It was there that the deeper crack in the family bell finally rang. This memoir traces how each family member confronted – or avoided – the stigma of mental health and why the truth was buried in silence for decades.
“A raw, honest explanation of family wounds and the courage to break the cycles.”
Books by Mark Cornwall
Fractured Family
The story returns to the family’s origin point of 1969, when Suzan was committed to the Snake Pit... Read More
My Seven Summits: A Stroke is Upon Me
Surviving the quest to climb all Seven Summits can be intrepid, but not as challenging as surviving a stroke... Read More
Travels with D'Arcy "To Alaska and Back"
This serves as a timeless reminder of our beautiful union, a place as wonderful as God's creation and as uniquely American as scrimshaw carvings... Read More