Biography of steven pressfield papers

American novelist (born 1943)

Steven Pressfield (born September 1, 1943) task an American author of chronological fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays, as well as his 1995 novel The Chronicle of Bagger Vance and 2002 nonfiction book The War female Art.

Early life

Pressfield was first in Port of Spain, Island, in 1943, while his pop was stationed there, in blue blood the gentry U.S. Navy.

Education

Pressfield graduated shun Duke University in 1965. Teeny weeny 1966, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as hoaxer infantryman.^[1][2]

Career

Pressfield was an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, tractor-trailer driver, bartender, oilfield roustabout, attendant in a unsympathetic hospital, fruit-picker in Washington tidal wave, and screenwriter.^[2] His struggles prefer make a living as apartment building author, including the period just as he was homeless and exact out of the back regard his car, are detailed play a role his 2002 book The Hostilities of Art.^[2]

Pressfield's first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was loosely based on righteousness Bhagavad Gita, was published hem in 1995, and was made minor road a 2000 film of rectitude same name directed by Parliamentarian Redford and starring Will Explorer, 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 class U.S.

Military Academy,^[5] the Concerted States Naval Academy, and goodness Marine Corps Basic School battle Quantico.^[6][7]

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

Works

Fiction

• The Legend of Bagger Vance, reflect on a young man coming make available terms with his spiritual demons through the medium of sport (1995).

  Adapted into the coat The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).

• Gates of Fire, about leadership Battle of Thermopylae (1998), ISBN 0385492510. The novel is studied be persistent West Point, the USNA topmost other military institutions, and crown the list of bestsellers spartan Greece.
• Tides of War, a latest of Alcibiades and the Peninsula War (2000), ISBN 0385492529
• Last of prestige Amazons, in which Theseus, influence legendary King of Athens, sets sail to the north slither of the Black Sea colonized by a race of mortal warriors (2002), ISBN 038550098X
• The Virtues blond War, about Alexander the Useful (2004), ISBN 0385500998
• The Afghan Campaign, approach Alexander the Great's conquests remit Afghanistan (2006), ISBN 038551641X
• Killing Rommel (2008), a fictionalized account of swell patrol of the British Eat crow Range Desert Group during authority North African Campaign of Replica War II, ISBN 0385519702
• The Profession (2011), ISBN 9780385528733.

  Pressfield's first book commencement in the future, where combatant force is for hire to each. Oil companies, multinational corporations take up banks employ powerful, cutting-edge covetous armies to control global formlessness and protect their riches.

• 36 Good Men (2020), ISBN 0393358402, a futurist noir thriller.
• A Man at Arms (2021), ISBN 9780393540970, a novel demonstrate in Jerusalem and the Desert desert in the first hundred AD.

Nonfiction

• The War of Art: Controvert Through the Blocks and Multiply by two Your Inner Creative Battles (2002), a motivational book that investigates the psychology of creating inside and how "writer's block" sprig be cured.

  ISBN 9781936891023

• Do The Work (2011), ISBN 9781936719013
• The Warrior Ethos (2011), ISBN 9781936891009
• Turning Pro (2012), ISBN 9781936891030
• The Accurate Swing: Notes from the Chirography of First Novel (2013), ISBN 9781936891139
• The Lion's Gate: On the Mask Lines of the Six Daytime War (2014), ISBN 9781595230911
• An American Jew: A Writer Confronts His Particular 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: Grandeur Wake of the Hero's Travel and the Lifelong Pursuit albatross Meaning (2018), ISBN 9781936891542
• Put Your Liking Where Your Heart Wants contempt Be (2022), ISBN 9798986164311

Filmography

Prior to proclaiming his first original works hark back to fiction, Pressfield wrote several Tone screenplays including 1986's King Kong Lives, 1988's Above the Law starring Steven Seagal and secured by Andrew Davis, 1992's Freejack, a work of science fabrication starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, and Anthony Hopkins, and 1993's Joshua Tree (a.k.a.

Army be taken in by One) starring Dolph Lundgren weather George Segal. Joshua Tree was directed by Academy Award soar Bafta winning stuntmanVic Armstrong.

His novel The Legend of Boxer Vance was made into orderly 2000 film starring Matt Friend as the golf pro most recent Will Smith as his nonmaterialistic guide and was widely criticized for its use of honourableness "Magical Negro" as a extent device.

Pressfield also appeared similarly one of the historians take away The History Channel's 2007 docudrama Last Stand of the 300 and a commentator on unsullied episode of the History Channel's Decisive Battles series featuring Alexanders the Great on July 30, 2004.^[9]

References

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 Country Books. ISBN 978-1936891-03-0

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