(April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American insurance agent and novelist.
Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors. == Early life and education == Clancy was born on April 12, 1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Northwood neighborhood in northeast Baltimore.
"Clancy, Tom (12 April 1947–01 October 2013)" American National Biography (2015) online :Scholarly studies Blouin, Michael J.
He was a member of Troop 624 of the Boy Scouts of America. Clancy's mother worked to send him to the private Catholic secondary school taught by the Jesuit religious order (Society of Jesus), Loyola High School in Towson, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1965.
He then attended the associated Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland) in Baltimore, graduating in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in English literature.
They married in 1969, and had four children: daughters Michelle, Christine, and Kathleen and son Thomas Leo III.
Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Chapter 5: "Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Tree" pp. 147–175.
He joined the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps; however, he was ineligible to serve due to his myopia (nearsightedness), which required him to wear thick eyeglasses. After graduating, Clancy worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973, Clancy joined the O.
In 1980, he purchased the insurance agency from his wife's grandmother and wrote novels in his spare time.
Clancy's novel Clear and Present Danger (1989) sold 1,625,544 hardcover copies, making it the #1 bestselling novel of the 1980s. Clancy received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1988.
While working at the insurance agency, he wrote his debut novel, The Hunt for Red October (1984). == Career == Clancy's literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October, which in 1984 he sold for publishing to the Naval Institute Press for $5,000.
While working at the insurance agency, he wrote his debut novel, The Hunt for Red October (1984). == Career == Clancy's literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October, which in 1984 he sold for publishing to the Naval Institute Press for $5,000.
That it tastes yummy going down more than suffices to keep customers coming back. By 1988, Clancy had earned $1.3 million for The Hunt for Red October and had signed a $3 million contract for his next three books.
Clancy's novel Clear and Present Danger (1989) sold 1,625,544 hardcover copies, making it the #1 bestselling novel of the 1980s. Clancy received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1988.
"Red Storm Rising-A Primer for a Future Conventional War in Central Europe"" (Army War College, 1988).
In 1992, he sold North American rights to Without Remorse for $14 million, a record for a single book.
The Op-Center universe has laid the ground for the series of books written by Jeff Rovin, which was in an agreement worth $22 million, bringing the total value of the package to $97 million. In 1993, Clancy joined a group of investors that included Peter Angelos, and bought the Baltimore Orioles from Eli Jacobs.
The first Op-Center novel (Tom Clancy's Op-Center published in 1995) was released to coincide with a 1995 NBC television miniseries of the same name starring Harry Hamlin and a cast of stars.
The couple separated briefly in 1995, and permanently separated in December 1996.
The couple separated briefly in 1995, and permanently separated in December 1996.
By 1997, Penguin Putnam Inc.
Wanda Clancy filed for divorce in November 1997, which became final in January 1999. On June 26, 1999, Clancy married freelance journalist Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, whom he had met in 1997.
Clancy followed this up with an agreement with Penguin's Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the ABC television miniseries Tom Clancy's Net Force aired in the fall/winter of 1998.
In 1998, he reached an agreement to purchase the Minnesota Vikings, but had to abandon the deal because of a divorce settlement cost. The first NetForce novel, titled Net Force (1999), was adapted as a 1999 TV movie starring Scott Bakula and Joanna Going.
In 1998, he reached an agreement to purchase the Minnesota Vikings, but had to abandon the deal because of a divorce settlement cost. The first NetForce novel, titled Net Force (1999), was adapted as a 1999 TV movie starring Scott Bakula and Joanna Going.
Wanda Clancy filed for divorce in November 1997, which became final in January 1999. On June 26, 1999, Clancy married freelance journalist Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, whom he had met in 1997.
A week after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, on The O'Reilly Factor, Clancy suggested that left-wing politicians in the United States were partly responsible for the failure to prevent the attacks due to their "gutting" of the Central Intelligence Agency. On September 11, 2001, Clancy was interviewed by Judy Woodruff on CNN.
In a 2002 interview with Lev Grossman for Time magazine, Clancy lamented what he perceived as society's double standard in the way it protects minorities: "You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want." === Property === Clancy's 80-acre estate, which was once a summer camp, is located in Calvert County, Maryland.
The Jack Ryan Agenda: Policy and Politics in the Novels of Tom Clancy: An Unauthorized Analysis (Macmillan, 2005).
Action figures: Men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives (Springer, 2006). Garson, Helen S.
Based on his interest in private spaceflight and his investment in the launch vehicle company Rotary Rocket, Clancy was interviewed in 2007 for the documentary film Orphans of Apollo (2008). == Political views == A long-time proponent of conservative and Republican views, Clancy dedicated books to American conservative political figures, most notably Ronald Reagan.
"“Sleeping Beauty”: Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor." in Hicks, The Culture of Soft Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp.
(April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American insurance agent and novelist.
Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors. == Early life and education == Clancy was born on April 12, 1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Northwood neighborhood in northeast Baltimore.
They remained together until Clancy's death in October 2013.
It is unclear when the estate expanded to its present size. == Death == Clancy died of [failure] on October 1, 2013, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, near his Baltimore home.
"Clancy, Tom (12 April 1947–01 October 2013)" American National Biography (2015) online :Scholarly studies Blouin, Michael J.
"The good guys win: Ronald Reagan, Tom Clancy, and the transformation of national security" (MA thesis, U of Texas, 2015).
Playing war: Military video games after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2016). Terdoslavich, William.
Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Chapter 5: "Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Tree" pp. 147–175.
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