Moerk, Christian

Christian Moerk has always told stories. Born into a family of actors, he realized when he was quite young that he d rather tell the tales himself than interpret other people s words on stage. But he sucked in the words. From "Richard III" to "Faust".

At 21, he left his hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark, and moved to southeastern state of Vermont, deep in the Green Mountains, where he stayed long enough in the mud and the cold to graduate "summa cum laude" in History and Sociology from Marlboro College, 1991. They gave him the Margaret Mead Prize for the best social sciences thesis, which deal...