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James Rollins is the pen name of American veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski (born August 20, 1961), a writer of action-adventure/thriller novels. He gave up his veterinary practice in Sacramento, California, to be a full-time author. Rollins is an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver. These pastimes have helped him to provide content for some of his novels, which are often set in underground or underwater locations. Under the pen name James Clemens, he has also has published fantasy novels, including ''Wit'ch Fire'', ''Wit'ch Storm'', ''Wit'ch War'', ''Wit'ch Gate'', ''Wit'ch Star'', ''Shadowfall'' (2005), and ''Hinterland'' (2006) == Biographical sketch == Rollins was born in Chicago.〔 His father worked for Libby's canning plant, his mother was a housewife and mother of seven, and he lived what he likened to a ''Brady Bunch'' lifestyle. He attended Parkway South Junior High School〔 and then graduated from Parkway West Senior High School in Ballwin, Missouri, in 1979. His undergraduate work focused on evolutionary biology. He graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1985 with a doctorate in veterinary medicine (D. V. M). Soon afterward, he moved to Sacramento, California, where he established his veterinary practice, licensed July 24, 1985.〔 In an August 16, 2012 interview, he told ''SLM'' Jeannette Cooperman: ''For 20 years my paycheck was coming from my veterinary degree and my writing was my hobby, and I thought it would be really cool to flip that around. Veterinary medicine is much harder. It's a 14-, 16-, 18-hour-a-day job. I owned my own practice, had 24 employees. I couldn’t get away, that was the biggest thing. In the 10 years I ran my own practice, I had three weeks of vacation total. I started writing during my lunch hour at the clinic—dogs barking, cats miaowing—so now I can write anywhere.'' Now, he's flipped that equation: "Once a week I spend about eight hours spaying and neutering trapped feral cats for the Sacramento Council of Cats. All I do with my veterinary degree now is remove genitalia."〔 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「James Rollins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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