Mark Whalon

Mark A Whalon (1886-1956) was an Irish-American poet and prose author.

Life
Whalon was raised in East Dorset, Vermont.

Whalon was close friends with Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and said to be a close influence on Wilson in his later life.

Poetry

 * Rural Peace. 1933. poetry about the carefree aspects of daily life in East Dorset, Vermont.
 * Rural free delivery; recollections of a rural mailman (ISBN 1-113-59709-7) is a 1942 autobiographical where Whalon writes about growing up and living in East Dorset.