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Richard Setlowe is an American author and journalist best known for his suspense novels, which have enjoyed critical and academic recognition. His early career as a Navy officer in the Far East and a fascination with technology inform his thrillers. ''The Brink'', published in 1976, was acclaimed as "the classic novel of the Era of Undeclared War" and was a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for First Novels.〔Flynn, William (1976). "Books: An excellent novel on the immorality of war", ''San Francisco Examiner''.〕 ''The Experiment'' (1980) and ''The Haunting of Suzanna Blackwell'' (1984) venture into the realm of science fiction and the supernatural, while exploring deep personal themes. With ''The Black Sea'' (1991), a prescient narrative about a lone Navy frigate's encounter with terrorists, the novelist Clive Cussler commented, "Setlowe has to be the finest adventure novelist in the country today".〔Cussler, Clive (1991). Web. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/richard-setlowe/black-sea.htm Retrieved 15 September 2010.〕 ''The Sexual Occupation of Japan'' (1999) was lauded by English professor and novelist Les Standiford as "rivaling Michael Crichton in topicality, le Carre in authority, and Martin Cruz Smith in emotional depth".〔http://www.amazon.com/dp/product-description/0060183934〕 Setlowe's five novels to date have been translated into a dozen languages. == Background == Setlowe was born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York during the height of the Depression. His father Ernest quit law school to become an actor, and a playwright, and met his future wife Marion, a dancer, while performing in the 1927 production of the Broadway musical ''Good News''. With a growing family, Setlowe's father abandoned his theatre ambitions and went to work in a family furniture manufacturing business. They moved to Morristown, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. The family lived there for just a few years, but the young New Yorker's experiences were deeply affecting. While his novels explore the Pacific Rim from California to Asia, major characters are often Southerners. Ernest Setlowe encouraged his son Rick's creative interests. In high school on Long Island, teachers were less encouraging. Setlowe's lowest grades were English and languages, but his math and science won him a scholarship to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York to study engineering. He transferred in his junior year on a Navy scholarship to the University of Southern California. As part of his training, each summer he embarked as a midshipman aboard warships that made ports of call in Europe. Wanting a broader education, Rick switched majors and earned a B.S. degree in social studies along with a regular commission as a Navy officer. Ensign Setlowe volunteered for Navy flight school with the ambition of becoming a fighter pilot. But after a year of flight training in Florida, in a budget cutback the Navy reassigned him to the USS Midway as an operations officer and flight controller in the Far East. The aircraft carrier was the flagship during the international crisis in the Taiwan Straits in 1958. Setlowe disembarked from the Midway in San Francisco with the material for his first novels in his sea bag. 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「Richard Setlowe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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