Mark Weston (born July 26, 1953) is an American journalist, writer, and speaker, as well as the author of five books, including "The Runner-Up Presidency: The Elections that Defied America's Popular Will," (Lyons Press, 2016), Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan’s Greatest Men and Women (Kodansha 1999), a work the Los Angeles Times called a "superb new book,” and Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present (Wiley 2008), which Britain’s New Statesman praised as “always intelligent.” Weston grew up in Armonk, New York and graduated from Brown University with a B.A.

[2] His one-character play, Meet George Orwell has been performed at Trinity College, Oxford and the John Kennedy Presidential Library Theatre in Boston, among other venues.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale wrote the book’s foreword, and Foreign Affairs called it “vivid, an excellent introduction to Japanese history.” Giants of Japan went into paperback in 2002, and again in 2008.

In 2004, Weston was a visiting scholar at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

His father, William Weston, wrote and produced television documentaries, including The Soviet Woman for ABC News in 1963, and The Last Word, a Peabody award-winning talk show, for CBS in the mid-1950s.