Mel Green is a writer/performer who splits his time between Los Angeles and the Big Bend region on the Tex/Mex border. A Saturday Night Live alum, he mixes humor and pathos in his latest book MARKER: A True Story with an Appendix of Lies. The autobiographical novel chronicles the adventures of an adopted child from Hawaii who grows up in West Texas, does time at a military school on a mountain top in Tennessee, sets fire to himself at a Hollywood pool party and eventually finds his way back to the Islands in search of a resolution to the troubling mystery that surrounds his genetic history.