David Morrell (born 1943 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... For other uses of the word Kitchener please see Kitchener (disambiguation) Map of Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario with Kitchener in red. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total... First Blood is the first film featuring the character of troubled Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. ... Rambo is a saga of popular action films starring Sylvester Stallone, based on the characters created by David Morrell in his novel First Blood. ...

Biography

"The mild-mannered professor with the bloody-minded visions," as one reviewer called him, Morrell is the author of twenty-eight books, including such novels of international intrigue as The Fifth Profession, Assumed Identity, and Extreme Denial (set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he now lives with his wife, Donna). His most recent publication is the dark-suspense thriller Creepers. Nickname: The City Different Location in the State of New Mexico Coordinates: Country United States State New Mexico County Santa Fe Founded 1607 Mayor David Coss Area    - City 96. ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ...

In 1960, at the age of seventeen, he became a fan of the classic television series, Route 66, about two young men in a Corvette traveling the United States in search of America and themselves. The scripts by Stirling Silliphant impressed him so much that he decided to become a writer. Alternate meanings of Route 66: New Jersey State Highway 66, Interstate 66, and a company named after the route US Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the United States highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 1966, the work of another writer, Hemingway scholar Philip Young, prompted Morrell to move to the United States. He studied with Young at Penn State University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in American literature. He also met the distinguished fiction writer William Tenn), who taught him the basics of fiction writing. The result was First Blood, published in 1972, a novel about a troubled Vietnam veteran who comes into conflict with a small-town police chief. A version of the Vietnam War then erupts in the forests, hills, and caves of rural Kentucky. Immensely popular and controversial, First Blood became known as the father of all modern action novels, entering popular culture. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related land-grant university in Pennsylvania, with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the state. ... William Tenn is the pseudonym for the science fiction work of Philip Klass (born May 9, 1920). ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...

From 1970 to 1986, Morrell was a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa. After the success of First Blood, he continued writing other novels, many of them national bestsellers, such as The Brotherhood of the Rose (the basis for a highly rated NBC miniseries starring Robert Mitchum). Eventually tiring of two professions, he gave up his tenure in order to write full time. Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. ...

Shortly afterward, his fifteen-year-old son Matthew was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. He died in 1987, a loss that haunts not only Morrell's life but his work, as can be seen in his memoir about his son, Fireflies, and his novel Desperate Measures, whose main character has lost a son.

Morrell is the co-founder and co-president (with Gayle Lynds) of the International Thriller Writers organization (www.thrillerwriters.org). Noted for his research, he is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School for wilderness survival as well as the G. Gordon Liddy Academy of Corporate Security. He is also an honorary lifetime member of the Special Operations Association and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He has been trained in firearms, hostage negotiation, assuming identities, executive protection, and anti-terrorist driving, among numerous other action skills that he describes in his novels. With eighteen million copies in print, his work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Gayle Lynds is the author of The Coil, Masquerade, Mosaic, and Mesmerized, and co-creator with Robert Ludlum of the Covert-One series. ... The National Outdoor Leadership School, more commonly known as NOLS, is a non-profit school dedicated to teaching about nature, skills and leadership on month-long expeditions in a wilderness setting. ... G. Gordon Liddy George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for President Richard Nixons White House Plumbers unit. ...

Morrell has recently been tapped by Marvel Comics to pen a six-issue mini series set around the Gulf War and one of their most prolific icons, Captain America. Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Entertainment, Inc. ... Combatants UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf Saddam Hussein Strength 660,000 360,000 Casualties 345 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 dead, 75,000 wounded The Gulf War (1990–1991) (also called the Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, or Second Gulf War) was a conflict between... Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Rogers), is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. ...

Bibliography

Fiction

• 1972 First Blood
• 1975 Testament
• 1977 Last Reveille
• 1979 The Totem
• 1982 Blood Oath
• 1983 The Hundred-Year Christmas
• 1984 Brotherhood of the Rose
• 1985 Fraternity of the Stone
• 1987 The League of Night and Fog
• 1990 Fifth Profession
• 1991 The Covenant of the Flame
• 1993 Assumed identity
• 1994 Desperate Measures
• 1994 The Totem (Complete and Unaltered)
• 1996 Extreme Denial
• 1998 Double Image
• 1999 Black Evening
• 2000 Burnt Sienna
• 2002 Long Lost
• 2003 The Protector
• 2005 Creepers
• 2007 Scavenger

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Nonfiction

• 1976 John Barth: An Introduction
• 1988 Fireflies
• 2002 Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft

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External links

• Author's Website
• imdb profile