Marcus A. Nannini began his writing career when he published his own newspaper in the sixth grade and charged 25 cents per school quarter for the privilege of reading the only handwritten copy of each edition.

During the eighth grade, his English teacher took him aside to tell him that while she very much enjoyed his writing, he included too many details and that by doing so it distracted from his otherwise good storytelling. He took that lesson to heart.

In the final month of his senior year in high school, his English composition teacher told him that he already had developed a unique writing style and that he should never let anyone try to change it.

During his undergraduate years, Nannini was a paid newspaper reporter and also worked three semesters as the research assistant to journalism professor Richard Stocks Carlson PhD. Dr. Carlson pointed to his own sole published work, The Benign Humorists, and warned Nannini not to make the mistake he had committed by writing a book directed at a more “educated” market. Dr. Carlson advised Nannini to keep writing as an author who seeks to appeal to the mass-market reader.

Nannini’s most recent work, Left for Dead at Nijmegen: The True Story of an American Paratrooper in World War II (Casemate Publishers/Oxford, UK, and Philadelphia, Pa.) was added to the United States National Archives in July 2019.

Nannini currently writes on a full-time basis. Look for more books from him in the near future along with articles he has composed for World War II History magazine, History Magazine, Casemate UK Blog, and Military History Now magazine.