After spending two decades in the information systems industry, Mark R. Whittington became a full-time writer. He is published in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Houston Chronicle, The Hill, and The Weekly Standard. He has also written for Yahoo News.

Whittington is the author of a number of books, the latest being “Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?”

He has written for a wide variety of corporate clients on subjects that include science and health research, technology, legal issues, popular culture, the environment, renewable energy, domestic and world politics, travel, food, and the effects of the Internet and social media on society, among others.