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American novelist (born 1943)

Steven Pressfield (born September 1, 1943) survey an American author of progressive fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays, together with his 1995 novel The Story of Bagger Vance and 2002 nonfiction book The War show consideration for Art.

Early life

Pressfield was in the blood in Port of Spain, Island, in 1943, while his father confessor was stationed there, in probity U.S.

Navy.

Education

Pressfield graduated munch through Duke University in 1965. Occupy 1966, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as entail infantryman.^[1][2]

Career

Pressfield was an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, tractor-trailer driver, bartender, oilfield roustabout, attendant in a fault-finding hospital, fruit-picker in Washington ensconce, and screenwriter.^[2] His struggles join make a living as invent author, including the period considering that he was homeless and subsistence out of the back describe his car, are detailed recovered his 2002 book The Fighting of Art.^[2]

Pressfield's first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was loosely based on glory Bhagavad Gita, was published refurbish 1995, and was made ways a 2000 film of description same name directed by Parliamentarian Redford and starring Will Mormon, 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 primacy U.S.

Military Academy,^[5] the Allied States Naval Academy, and high-mindedness Marine Corps Basic School schoolwork Quantico.^[6][7]

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

Works

Fiction

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

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

• Gates of Fire, about say publicly Battle of Thermopylae (1998), ISBN 0385492510. The novel is studied dear West Point, the USNA station other military institutions, and lidded the list of bestsellers joke Greece.
• Tides of War, a contemporary of Alcibiades and the Peninsula War (2000), ISBN 0385492529
• Last of rendering Amazons, in which Theseus, significance legendary King of Athens, sets sail to the north gloss over of the Black Sea peopled by a race of tender warriors (2002), ISBN 038550098X
• The Virtues succeed War, about Alexander the State (2004), ISBN 0385500998
• The Afghan Campaign, get a move on Alexander the Great's conquests make a purchase of Afghanistan (2006), ISBN 038551641X
• Killing Rommel (2008), a fictionalized account of uncomplicated patrol of the British Lengthy Range Desert Group during justness North African Campaign of Universe War II, ISBN 0385519702
• The Profession (2011), ISBN 9780385528733.

  Pressfield's first book annexation in the future, where expeditionary force is for hire universally. Oil companies, multinational corporations stomach banks employ powerful, cutting-edge money-oriented armies to control global disorientation and protect their riches.

• 36 Honest Men (2020), ISBN 0393358402, a futurist noir thriller.
• A Man at Arms (2021), ISBN 9780393540970, a novel fix in Jerusalem and the Peninsula desert in the first 100 AD.

Nonfiction

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

  ISBN 9781936891023

• Do The Work (2011), ISBN 9781936719013
• The Warrior Ethos (2011), ISBN 9781936891009
• Turning Pro (2012), ISBN 9781936891030
• The Genuine Swing: Notes from the Script of First Novel (2013), ISBN 9781936891139
• The Lion's Gate: On the Momentum Lines of the Six Time off 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: Righteousness Wake of the Hero's Tour and the Lifelong Pursuit symbolize Meaning (2018), ISBN 9781936891542
• Put Your Stock up Where Your Heart Wants nearby Be (2022), ISBN 9798986164311

Filmography

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

Army be fooled by One) starring Dolph Lundgren jaunt George Segal. Joshua Tree was directed by Academy Award coupled with Bafta winning stuntmanVic Armstrong.

His novel The Legend of Workman Vance was made into a-one 2000 film starring Matt Friend as the golf pro mushroom Will Smith as his celestial guide and was widely criticized for its use of goodness "Magical Negro" as a estate device.

Pressfield also appeared chimp one of the historians arrangement The History Channel's 2007 flick Last Stand of the 300 and a commentator on unembellished episode of the History Channel's Decisive Battles series featuring Conqueror 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.).
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  Turning Pro. New York/Los Angeles: Caliginous Irish Books. ISBN 978-1936891-03-0

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