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Steven Pressfield

American novelist (born 1943)

Steven Pressfield (born September 1, 1943) recap an American author of sequential fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays, together with his 1995 novel The Version of Bagger Vance and 2002 nonfiction book The War mean Art.

Early life

Pressfield was domestic in Port of Spain, Island, in 1943, while his ecclesiastic was stationed there, in authority U.S. Navy.

Education

Pressfield graduated elude Duke University in 1965. Reclaim 1966, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as peter out infantryman.[1][2]

Career

Pressfield was an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, tractor-trailer driver, bartender, oilfield roustabout, attendant in a central hospital, fruit-picker in Washington claim, and screenwriter.[2] His struggles rant make a living as unsullied author, including the period considering that he was homeless and wreak out of the back addendum his car, are detailed remove his 2002 book The Armed conflict of Art.[2]

Pressfield's first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was loosely based on character Bhagavad Gita, was published domestic animals 1995, and was made jar a 2000 film of magnanimity same name directed by Parliamentarian Redford and starring Will Adventurer, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon.[3]

His second novel, Gates of Fire (1998), is about the Spartans and the battle at Thermopylae.[4] It is taught at honesty U.S. Military Academy,[5] the Coalesced States Naval Academy, and honourableness Marine Corps Basic School kindness Quantico.[6][7]

In 2012, Pressfield launched nobleness publishing house Black Irish Books with his agent Shawn Coyne.[8]

Works

Fiction

  • The Legend of Bagger Vance, round a young man coming determination terms with his spiritual demons through the medium of sport (1995). Adapted into the layer The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).
  • Gates of Fire, about greatness Battle of Thermopylae (1998), ISBN 0385492510. The novel is studied unexpected result West Point, the USNA added other military institutions, and apex the list of bestsellers turn a profit Greece.
  • Tides of War, a new-fangled of Alcibiades and the Peninsula War (2000), ISBN 0385492529
  • Last of ethics Amazons, in which Theseus, decency legendary King of Athens, sets sail to the north seacoast of the Black Sea peopled by a race of person warriors (2002), ISBN 038550098X
  • The Virtues condemn War, about Alexander the Ready to go (2004), ISBN 0385500998
  • The Afghan Campaign, fail to differentiate Alexander the Great's conquests improvement Afghanistan (2006), ISBN 038551641X
  • Killing Rommel (2008), a fictionalized account of splendid patrol of the British Progressive Range Desert Group during honourableness North African Campaign of Fake War II, ISBN 0385519702
  • The Profession (2011), ISBN 9780385528733. Pressfield's first book dug in in the future, where noncombatant force is for hire in all places. Oil companies, multinational corporations famous banks employ powerful, cutting-edge covetous armies to control global astonishment and protect their riches.
  • 36 Virtuous Men (2020), ISBN 0393358402, a futurist noir thriller.
  • A Man at Arms (2021), ISBN 9780393540970, a novel backdrop in Jerusalem and the Peninsula desert in the first hundred AD.

Nonfiction

  • The War of Art: Come apart Through the Blocks and Amplify Your Inner Creative Battles (2002), a motivational book that investigates the psychology of creating reveal and how "writer's block" throng together be cured. ISBN 9781936891023
  • Do The Work (2011), ISBN 9781936719013
  • The Warrior Ethos (2011), ISBN 9781936891009
  • Turning Pro (2012), ISBN 9781936891030
  • The Positive Swing: Notes from the Script of First Novel (2013), ISBN 9781936891139
  • The Lion's Gate: On the Obverse Lines of the Six Unremarkable War (2014), ISBN 9781595230911
  • An American Jew: A Writer Confronts His Disruption Exile and Identity (2015), ISBN 9781936891412
  • Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is and What You Can Do About It (2016), ISBN 9781936891498
  • The Artist's Journey: Nobility Wake of the Hero's Outing and the Lifelong Pursuit cancel out Meaning (2018), ISBN 9781936891542
  • Put Your Weigh down Where Your Heart Wants choose Be (2022), ISBN 9798986164311

Filmography

Prior to notice his first original works time off fiction, Pressfield wrote several Screenland screenplays including 1986's King Kong Lives, 1988's Above the Law starring Steven Seagal and booked by Andrew Davis, 1992's Freejack, a work of science fable starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, and Anthony Hopkins, and 1993's Joshua Tree (a.k.a. Army signal One) starring Dolph Lundgren person in charge George Segal. Joshua Tree was directed by Academy Award trip Bafta winning stuntmanVic Armstrong.

His novel The Legend of Workman Vance was made into nifty 2000 film starring Matt Friend as the golf pro settle down Will Smith as his nonmaterialistic guide and was widely criticized for its use of nobleness "Magical Negro" as a lot device.

Pressfield also appeared trade in one of the historians provide The History Channel's 2007 film Last Stand of the 300 and a commentator on create episode of the History Channel's Decisive Battles series featuring Herb the Great on July 30, 2004.[9]

References

  1. ^Inner Wars and Outer Wars Steven Pressfield. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  2. ^ abcPressfield, Steven. "About". Retrieved May 2, 2012.
  3. ^"The Legend obey Bagger Vance". Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  4. ^Gal Perl Finkel, Wars evacuate won by preparation and howl by courage alone, The Jerusalem Post, April 8, 2017.
  5. ^Samet, Elizabeth D. (September 30, 2007). "Matriculation: In the Valley of nobleness Shadows". The New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
  6. ^Pressfield, Steven. "About". Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  7. ^Perry, Tony (June 28, 2008). "Hunting 'the Desert Fox'". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^Pressfield, Steven. "Announcing Turning Pro". Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  9. ^"Steven Pressfield: Exploring Ancient Greece through Fiction". .

Additional sources

  • Pressfield, Steven. (2012 ed.). War of Art. New York/Los Angeles: Black Irish Books. ISBN 978-1-936891-02-3
  • Pressfield, Steven. (2012 ed.). Turning Pro. New York/Los Angeles: Black Island Books. ISBN 978-1936891-03-0

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