David Morrell

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David Morrell (2009)

David Morrell (born  April 24, 1943 in Kitchener , Canada ) is a Canadian -American writer and professor of American literature. Morrell achieved fame with his debut novel First Blood from 1972, which was filmed as Rambo with Sylvester Stallone in the lead role and resulted in four sequels .

Life

David Morrell was born in Kitchener, Canada in 1943; his father had died a short time before in World War II . Morrell grew up mainly in orphanages and foster families.

Inspired by the works of the Hemingway student Philip Young , Morrell moved to the USA in 1966, where he studied American literature at Pennsylvania State University . At this time, Morrell also met the science fiction writer Philip Klass (alias William Tenn ), who taught English and comparative literature there. In 1970 Morrell graduated with a Masters of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy and taught at the University of Iowa until he gave up this position in 1986 in favor of writing.

That same year, Morrell's then fifteen-year-old son, Matthew, developed a rare form of bone cancer and died a year later. Morrell processed this loss in 1988 in his book Fireflies: A Father's Tale of Love and Loss . The death of his son also influenced many of his later works, including his novel Desperate Measures (German: Der Obituary , 1999).

Morrell now lives in Santa Fe , New Mexico with his wife and daughter .

Literary work

Morrell has published 28 novels, translated into 26 languages ​​and regularly featured in bestseller lists, as well as three non-fiction books and several comics.

Inspired by Young and Klass, Morrell began work in 1970 on his first and to this day most famous novel, " First Blood, " which was published in 1972. The novel was filmed in 1982 with Sylvester Stallone in the lead role (German title: " Rambo "). The film is one of the most commercially successful films of its time with worldwide box office profits of 126 million US dollars and made Morrell's protagonist, John J. Rambo, a world-famous pop icon. Morrell wrote a novel adaptation based on the film sequels Rambo II - The Order (1985) and Rambo III (1988) , and after the release of the fourth sequel Rambo: Last Blood (2019) , Morrell explicitly distanced himself from this film: Via Twitter , Morrell stated that he was ashamed to be associated with this film.

Awards

bibliography

Fiction

  • First Blood (1972); German: First Blood (1985)
  • Testament (1975); German: Testament (1986)
  • Last Reveille (1977); German: Massaker (1988)
  • The Totem (1979); German: Totem (1985)
  • Blood Oath (1982); German: Blutschwur (1987)
  • The Hundred-Year Christmas (1983)
  • The Brotherhood of the Rose (1984); German: The secret society of the rose (1987)
  • The Fraternity of the Stone (1985); German: Conspiracy (1988)
  • Rambo (First Blood Part II) (1985); German: Rambo II, the order (1985)
  • The League of Night and Fog (1987); German: Verrat (1988)
  • Rambo III (1988); German: Rambo III (1988)
  • The Fifth Profession (1990); German: The fifth job (1993)
  • The Covenant of the Flame (1991); German: Oath of Fire (1995)
  • Assumed Identity (1993); German: The man with the hundred names (1994)
  • Desperate Measures (1994); German: The Obituary (1999)
  • The Totem (Complete and Unaltered) (1994)
  • Extreme Denial (1996); German: The look of the eagle (2000)
  • Double Image (1998); German: The image (2001)
  • Black Evening (1999) (short stories)
  • Burnt Sienna (2000); German: The portrait (2001)
  • Long Lost (2002); German: The Lost Brother (2002)
  • The Protector (2003); German: The Protector (2004)
  • Nightscape (2004, short stories)
  • Creepers (2005); German: Creepers (2006)
  • Scavenger (2007); German: Level 9 (2007)
  • The Spy Who Came for Christmas (2008)
  • The Shimmer (2009)
  • Murder as a Fine Art (2013)

Non-fiction

  • John Barth: An Introduction (1976)
  • Fireflies: A Father's Tale of Love and Loss (1988)
  • American Fiction, American Myth: Essays by Philip Young (2000)
  • Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft (2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] David Morrell's Twitter account
personal data
SURNAME Morrell, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitchener , Canada