Mark Sarvas

Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American novelist, critic, and blogger living in Los Angeles. He is the host of the literary blog The Elegant Variation and author of the novel Harry, Revised. Harry, Revised was published by Bloomsbury, and was a finalist for the Fiction Prize of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. It was also a 2008 Denver Post Good Reads selection.

Sarvas is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN America, and a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

His second novel, Memento Park, was acquired by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 2014, and published in March 2018. His third novel, @UGMAN, was published in 2025.

Awards 2005: The Guardian Top 10 Litblog 2005: Los Angeles magazine Top LA Blog 2006: Forbes Best of the Web 2008: Southern California Independent Booksellers Association: First Fiction Prize finalist 2018: Santa Monica Arts Fellowship 2019: AJL Fiction Award 2019: American Book Award for Memento Park 2019: Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize 2019: Shortlisted, JQ Wingate Literary Prize.