About

Read about Mark Johnson at Surfline.

Mark Johnson graduated from UCSD and has an MA and PhD in English literature from Boston University. Read about Mark in the Boston University Arts & Sciences magazine

He spent a year travelling the globe with the Garmin pro cycling team while writing and shooting a book, Argyle Armada: Behind the Scenes of the Pro Cycling Life.

2016 saw publication of Mark’s history of drugs in sport, Spitting in the Soup: Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sport. 

Mark has bicycled across the United States twice and once did an Ironman distance triathlon. Today he calls Del Mar, California home. His favorite surf spots are Jeffreys Bay, South Africa and Black’s Beach.