Anthony Marais (born 1966, Hollywood, California) [1] is an American writer, musician, and academic. His writing focuses on culture, alchemy and the tendency of people to follow delusions. [1]
Marais was graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in anthropology, then continued his education in Canada at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, focusing on Polynesian archaeology, where he earned a master's degree in archaeology with a thesis on fortifications in Tonga. [2] [1]
Marais studied language and art history in Paris and since 1995 has lived in Germany, during which time he began publishing novels and working as a screenwriter. He currently teaches English composition and creative writing at the Anglo-American University in Prague. [2] [1]
During the 1980s Marais co-founded the Los Angeles pop music group The Squids. He played bass guitar for Chamorro artist Maria Yatar in 1991, and in 2008, he co-founded the corporate-punk group The Karmakazees.[ citation needed ]