Mike Marvin: Mike Marvin. Writer: The Wraith. Mike Marvin is native of Tahoe City and fourth generation Californian. His family first visited Lake Tahoe in the early 1920's and by the late 1930's, the Lake was the family summer destination. Mike's grandmother built one of the first lakeside homes in Tahoma (1946) and eventually built three more Tahoe homes. Mike attended Tahoe Lake School, Tahoe-Truckee High School, Academy of Art San Francisco,...