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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