Jamake Highwater was an US writer and journalist who claimed Native American ancestry. The exact date of Highwater's birth is unknown but it might be any time between 1923-1933. According to his later statements, he was adopted into the white family of Marcia and Alexander Marks in 1947. Known as Jack or Jay Marks. He graduated from high school in 1950 and attended college in Los Angeles. He later claimed that he had met Susan Sontag and Anaïs Nin who he later credited as having encouraged him in writing. In 1954 he moved to San Francisco and taught modern dance at a neighborhood... school. By that time he used the name J Marks. In March 1955 he and other instructors formed the San Francisco Contemporary Dancers and Marks became its director and choreographer. He worked in that position until 1967. He also edited Contemporary, a Bay Area periodical for performing arts, in 1960-1962. In 1967 Marks moved to New York and began a joint project with his acquaintance Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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| Birthdate: | 1930 |
| Date of death: | June 3, 2001 |