作者  (1943年四月24日)

 黑白兩道 Black and white Liangdao： 《較量》 閱讀戴維·莫雷爾 David Morrell在小说之家的作品!!!

　　美國超級暢銷書作傢。美國愛荷華州立大學的前任美國文學教授戴維·莫雷爾1996年的新作Extreme Denial，其中譯本名《較量》，應該說相對於原名不甚確切，因為英文原文中“extreme”是“極端”、“堅决”的意思，而“denial”是“拒絶相信”、“拒絶接受”、“拒絶給予”並有“剋製自己”的含義。然而，從小說的內容看，這一篇名又是恰如其分的。它動感性很強，抓住了作品的中心內容以及作者所要展示的主題思想，那就是：感悟生命，重塑自我。

　　David Morrell (born April 24, 1943 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages. He has also written the 2007-2008 Captain America comic book miniseries The Chosen.
　　
　　Early life and career
　　
　　Morrell decided to become a writer at the age of 17, after being inspired by the writing in the classic television series Route 66. Morrell moved to the United States in 1966 to study with Hemingway scholar Philip Young at Pennsylvania State University, where he would eventually receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in American literature. During his time at Penn State he also met science fiction writer Philip Klass, better known by the pseudonym William Tenn, who taught the basics of writing fiction.
　　Morrell began work as an English professor at the University of Iowa in 1970. In 1972, his novel First Blood was published; it would eventually be made into the 1982 film of the same name starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam veteran John Rambo. Morrell continued to write many other novels, including The Brotherhood of the Rose, the first in a trilogy of novels, which was adapted into a 1989 NBC miniseries starring Robert Mitchum. Eventually tiring of the two professions, he gave up his tenure at the university in 1986 in order to write full time.
　　Morrell's teenaged son Matthew died of Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer in 1987. The trauma of his loss influenced Morrell's work, in particular in his exciting creative fiction memoir about Matthew, Fireflies. The protagonist of Morrell's novel Desperate Measures also experiences the loss of a son.
　　Morrell is the co-president of the International Thriller Writers organization.
　　[edit]Personal life
　　
　　Morrell is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School for wilderness survival as well as the G. Gordon Liddy Academy of Corporate Security. He is also an honorary lifetime member of the Special Operations Association and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
　　According to his website, he has been trained in firearms, hostage negotiation, assuming identities, executive protection, and anti-terrorist driving, among numerous other action skills that he describes in his novels. He recently received his FAA licence to pilot his own small plane.
　　Morrell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
　　[edit]Bibliography
　　
　　[edit]Fiction
　　1972 First Blood
　　1975 Testament
　　1977 Last Reveille
　　1979 The Totem
　　1982 Blood Oath
　　1983 The Hundred-Year Christmas - illustrated by R. J. Krupowicz
　　1984 Brotherhood of the Rose
　　1985 Fraternity of the Stone
　　1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II - novelization of the film of the same name
　　1987 The League of Night and Fog
　　1988 Rambo III - novelization of the film of the same name
　　1990 Fifth Profession
　　1991 The Covenant of the Flame
　　1993 Assumed identity
　　1994 Desperate Measures
　　1994 The Totem - unabridged
　　1996 Extreme Denial
　　1998 Double Image
　　1998 Front Man
　　1999 Black Evening
　　2000 Burnt Sienna
　　2002 Long Lost
　　2003 The Protector
　　2004 Nightscape
　　2005 Creepers
　　2007 Scavenger
　　2008 The Spy Who Came for Christmas
　　2009 The Shimmer
　　[edit]Nonfiction
　　1976 John Barth: An Introduction
　　1988 Fireflies
　　2002 Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft
　　[edit]Comic books
　　2007 - 2008 Captain America: The Chosen