All About Tom Clancy: Ethnicity, Measurements, Wedding, Nationality



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Thomas Leo “Tom” Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees.

Clancy’s literary career began in 1984 when he sold The Hunt for Red October for $5,000. His works, The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991), have been turned into commercially successful films. Actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine have played Clancy’s most famous fictional character, Jack Ryan. Another well-known character from Clancy’s works is John Clark, who first appeared in Without Remorse (1993).

Clancy died on October 1, 2013, of an undisclosed illness.

Early Life

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. was born on April 12, 1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in the Northwood neighborhood. His mother worked in a bank and his father worked for the United States Postal Service. He has two sisters and a brother. When he was a child, Clancy’s family moved to nearby Harford County. He graduated from Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland in 1965.

Clancy attended Loyola College in Baltimore (now Loyola University Maryland) from 1965 to 1969. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature; while there, he was a member of the English Honor Society and the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He later attended the Johns Hopkins University from 1969 to 1974, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in history. In 1980, he earned a PhD in systems management from the University of Maryland.

Career

Clancy’s literary career began in 1982 when he sold The Hunt for Red October for $5,000. The book was published by the Naval Institute Press in 1984 and became an immediate bestseller. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1984, and won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel that same year.

Clancy’s works, The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991), have been turned into commercially successful films. Actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine have played Clancy’s most famous fictional character, Jack Ryan. Another well-known character from Clancy’s works is John Clark, who first appeared in Without Remorse (1993).

Clancy died on October 1, 2013, of an undisclosed illness.

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia