Mark Weston (born July 26, 1953) is an American journalist, writer, and speaker, as well as the author of five books, including "The Runner-Up Presidency: The Elections that Defied America's Popular Will," (Lyons Press, 2016), Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan’s Greatest Men and Women (Kodansha 1999), a work the Los Angeles Times called a "superb new book,” and Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present (Wiley 2008), which Britain’s New Statesman praised as “always intelligent.”