Stephen Hunter (writer)

Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American writer and film critic .

Life and work

Stephen Hunter was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Evanston, Illinois . His father was Charles Francis Hunter, a language professor at Northwestern University who was murdered in 1975. His mother was Virginia Ricker Hunter, an author of children's books. Hunter graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Journalism in 1968 . He then served for two years as a soldier in a United States Army Honor Guard regiment in Washington, DC . He later wrote for a military newspaper, the Pentagon News .

In 1971, Hunter became editor for the Sunday edition of The Baltimore Sun newspaper , and in 1982 film review editor . He kept this job when he moved to The Washington Post in 1997 . He took early retirement in 2008.

Hunter is married to a journalist and has two children.

His novels in thriller form include Point of Impact (German: Im Fadenkreuz der Angst ) (filmed as a shooter ), Black Light and Time to Hunt , which form a trilogy about the Vietnam veteran and sniper Bob Lee Swagger. That story continued with The 47th Samurai , Night of Thunder , I, Sniper, and Dead Zero . This series also led to a spin (spin-off) with the books Hot Springs , Pale Horse Coming , and Havana . These form their own trilogy around Bob Swaggers father, Earl Swagger. The book Soft Target is about Bob's long-unknown son Ray Cruz. There are also several novels without any context.

Hunter wrote three non-fiction books (see below). He also wrote a number of non-film related articles for the Washington Post , including an article on Afghanistan.

Hunter's hobby is shooting with a pistol.

Awards

• 1998 - Distinguished Writing Award in the Critique category from the American Society of Newspaper Editors
• 2003 - Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Works

Novels

Bob Lee Swagger Series:

1. In the crosshairs of fear - (Original title Point of Impact ) (1993)
2. Night vision - (Original title Black Light ) (1996)
3. Lonely Hunters - ( Time to Hunt) (1998)
4. Original title The 47th Samurai (2007)
5. Original title Night of Thunder (2008)
6. Original title I, Sniper (2009)
7. Original title Dead Zero (2010)
8. Original title The Third Bullet (2013)
9. Original title Sniper's Honor (2014)

Earl Swagger Series:

1. Original title Hot Springs (2000)
2. Original title Pale Horse Coming (2001)
3. Original title Havana (2003)

Ray Cruz:

1. Original title Soft Target (2011)

Other novels:

• Original title The Master Sniper (1980)
• Original title The Second Saladin (1982)
• Target - (Original title Target ) (book for the film) (1985)
• Original title The Spanish Gambit (reissued as Tapestry of Spies ) (1985)
• Titan - (Original title The Day Before Midnight ) (1989)
• The Hunted - (Original title Dirty White Boys ) (1994)

Non-fiction

• Original title Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem (1995)
• Original title Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies (2005)
• Original title American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out that Stopped It (2005)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunslinger Stephen Hunter ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Washingtonian.com, May 1, 2008. Accessed February 20, 2011 
2. ↑ Drinks, Shoots, and Seethes ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Baltimore Magazine, March 2009. Accessed February 20, 2011 
3. ↑ Dressed To Kill - From Kabul to Kandahar, It's Not Who You Are That Matters, but What You Shoot

Web links

• Unofficial website
• Biography on krimi-couch.de