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ABOUT AUTHOR DAVID MORRELL
David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. He was born in Ontario, Canada. As a teen he became a fan of the classic television series, Route 66, about two young men in a Corvette convertible traveling the US in search of America and themselves. The scripts by Stirling Silliphant combined action with ideas and so impressed Morrell that he decided to become a writer.
In 1966, the work of Hemingway scholar Philip Young prompted Morrell to move to the US, where he studied with Young at Penn State and received his MA. and PhD in American lit. There, he met the sci-fi author William Tenn who taught Morrell the basics of fiction writing. The result was First Blood, a novel about a returned Vietnam vet suffering from PTSD who comes into conflict with small-town police chief and fights his own version of the Vietnam War.
Morrell is considered the “father” of modern action novels. While teaching American literature from 1970 to 1986, he wrote many international bestsellers including the classic spy trilogy, The Brotherhood of the Rose (the basis for the only television mini-series to premier after a Super Bowl), The Fraternity of the Stone, and The League of Night and Fog. Wearying of two professions, Morrell gave up academia to write full time. Shortly after, his fifteen-year-old son Matthew was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and died in 1987-a loss that haunts not only Morrell’s life but his work as in his memoir Fireflies and his novel Desperate Measures-whose main character lost a son.
READ MORE ABOUT DAVID MORRELL
www.davidmorrell.net
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Morrell
