Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum (May 25th 1927 with New York - March 12th 2001 in Naples Florida) was a writer, a actor and a American Director . He is especially known for his Romance of espionage. Pseudonyms: Jonathan Ryder, Michel Shepherd.

Biography

Born in the Years 1920 with New York, it grew in the New Jersey. It is intended very early for the Théâtre, but also attracted by the military career, it engages before its majority in the Marines during the Second world war.

After the victory, it resumes studies with the Université wesleyenne, then becomes actor and Director. At forty years, it turns to the writing.

Its first suspense, the Heritage Scarlatti , published in 1971, is immediately a success and imposes it like the Master of the kind. Since, it published a series of novels which are as many masterpieces of the kind.

Before its death, he lived in the Connecticut with his wife. Large traveller, it also liked to remain in the capitals of the old woman Europe where are many its intrigues.

He is deceased in 2001 at the 73 years age.

He wrote 26 Spy novel and sold 210 million books all over the world. These books were translated in 32 different languages.

Posthumous works and exploitation of the name of the author

Robert Ludlum disappeared in 2001 but the commercial exploitation of its name, very carrying, continued after its death. At the beginning, Gayle Lynds was given the responsability to recover, complete and put at the last style manuscripts not yet published of the author. The reader can be convinced without sorrow that, vis-a-vis the rarefaction of the manuscripts or exploitable synopses, the posthumous novels of Robert Ludlum do not owe him anything the whole and appear from now on with its name as a sign. " Robert Ludlum" thus became the generic title of a collection of the editor St Martin' S.

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