Biography
The founder of the technical thriller Tom Clancy is a significant part of Russians perceived as a hater of Russians. But the first translation of the work of American Julian Semenov on the "Great and Mighty Language" was published in the publishing house owned by the military department of Russia.Childhood and youth
Thomas Leo Claens Jr. was born in the midst of the spring of 1947 in Baltimore, the largest city of Maryland, located in the east of the United States. The boy, the second child in the family, was named after the Father who worked as a clerk on American mail. The mother of the future writer, a zealous Catholic named Catherine, worked in the accounting department of the hypermarket.
The guy was interested in three things - chess, literature and military affair, especially its engineering side. At 22, Tom graduated from the Loyoli College of his native city, becoming a Bachelor of English Literature. Now the educational institution is assigned the status of the University. During his studies, the young man headed the college chess section.
Tom rushed into the army, but the dream to join the ranks of officers was not realized due to severe myopia. With Gresses about literature also had to wait. The first years after the completion of education, the future author of bestsellers worked as an insurance agent. Earnings made it possible to streamline a personal life and marry, and after 11 years, to buy a person's insurance company from grandmother's wife, founded by grandfather. From that time, Clancy began to live as an order and think about the plot of the first book.
Books
Fabul Debut Roman "Hunt for" Red October "" arose from a former insurance agent after reading a note about the uprising on the Soviet cruiser "Watchtown". Clancy turned an insignificant ship into a nuclear submarine, and the rebel - in Balt, added a happy ending and many technical details attached to the writtenness.
The book became a bestseller, and the author won the audience in the White House. At the first edition of Roman in 1984, Clancy earned $ 5 thousand, but in 4 years the fees for the work exceeded $ 1 million.
Commercial success accompanied the following works of the writer, among which the "Patriot Games", "without pity", "alive or dead" (in collaboration with the Blackwood grant), "all fears of the world" are the most famous. The cross-cutting hero of most books Tom Clancy is the retired Morpene Jack Ryan.
American Stirlitz then saves the British royal family, it prevents military conflict with the Soviet Union, it struggles with Islamic terrorists. The peak of the career of Ryan is the post of president of the United States - thus the literary work of the "Chief American Patriot" goes to the category "Alternative History".
The components of the popularity of the works of Clani are as follows:
- exciting plot and skillfully written dialogues;
- Hollywood construction of novels (unchangeable Heppi-and and a large number of plot lines);
- Unusual care in the description of the Military Engineering Invoice (many critics believe that the writer created the original genre of Technotriller).
The trillers of the former insurer and disadvantages are not devoid, such as the weak knowledge of the realities of the "potential enemy" (as well as the weekly diet of the Russian colonel, according to Belletrist, consists of a bottle of vodka and loaf of bread) and the protracted technological entry.
Despite the tons of "waxed cranberries", in the works of Clansey, some of the most important events of the beginning of the 21st century were predugaded: the author predicted the attack by Pilot-Kamikadze to the most important American buildings, and in the last book "Command Authority" ("Supreme Commander-in-Chief") - The accession of the Crimea to Russia.
It is believed that the Publisher of the Ministry of Defense, the first translation of the works of Clancy in Russia, did it not only in the desire for commercial success, but also because the writer draws Russian military cunning, but strong and worthy of opponents.
Films
Plots of works of Clancy contributed to their filmization. Bestsellers have become blockbusters. The role of Ryan in the ribbons was performed by celebrities such as Alec Baldwin ("Hunt for" Red October "), Harrison Ford (" Patriot Games "and" Direct and Explicit Threat "), Ben Affleck (" Fear price "on the novel" All fears Peace "). Also in the fighters on the books of Tom Clancy blown by Willem Defo and Sean Connery.
The prose not always was pleased with the screenings, finding a lot of technical errors in films on his "masterpieces". However, thanks to Hollywood, the plots invented by Clancy became known even from reading fans of militants from reading, and computer games were created on their reasons.
Personal life
Tom Klancy concluded the marriage union twice. The first spouse, the health worker Wanda Thomas King, gave a writer of four children and the current tank of the Second World War. After 27 years, the marriage collapsed. The costs associated with divorce prevented Clancy to acquire the Minnesota Vikings Football Club, however, 5 years before that, the writer acquired a baseball team of his native city.
A year before Millennium, the masted writer took to his wife Alexander Marie Lloillain - a journalist and a beginner writer. The second marriage has increased the number of children of Clancy. The author of bestsellers appeared another daughter.
Tom was a parishioner of the Roman Catholic Church and a supporter of the Republican Party. The writing craft of Clancy compared with the game of golf, and in addition to the plots of books, I composed chess tasks.
In the basement, the mansion of the writer, consisting of 24 rooms and an area of 80 acres located in the estate, a full shooting range was equipped.
The American presidents favor the Militarist writer, and the Russian left radicals assigned second place in the list of main Russophobes (the Brizinsky zbignev stood on the first step).
Death
Concent is the most mysterious page of the biography of the writer. The cause of the death of the writer at the age of 66 is still (for February 2019) was not published.
The state of Clancy, reaching almost $ 90 million, has become the subject of legal proceedings between the heirs. After the death of the writer, books and computer games continue to be published under the trademark "Tom Clancy".
Bibliography
- 1984 - "Hunt for" Red October "
- 1987 - "Patriot Games"
- 1989 - "Direct and obvious threat"
- 1991 - "All fears of the world"
- 1993 - "No pity"
- 1994 - "Bear and Dragon"
- 2003 - "Teeth Tiger"
- 2011 - "In one bundle"
- 2013 - "Right to the final decision"