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David Morrell (born April 24, 1943) 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 also wrote 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''. In 1966, Morrell received his B.A. in English from St. Jerome's University and moved to the United States 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 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Morrell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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