Robert Ludlum, the best selling author of thrillers like The Bourne Identity, The Holcroft Covenant and The Matarese Circle was born today in 1927.
Robert Ludlum, the best selling author of thrillers like The Bourne Identity, The Holcroft Covenant and The Matarese Circle was born today in 1927.
Ludlum's (who passed away in 2001) violent, fast-paced novels have sold around 290 million copies worldwide.
Here's some trivia on him:u00a0Ludlum's books have been published in 33 languages in 40 countries.u00a0u00a0u00a0
In 1951, he married actress Mary Ryducha; they had three children.u00a0
In the 1950s, Ludlum worked as a stage and television actor. He was in 200 television dramas, among them The Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, and Robert Montgomery Presents.u00a0
After producing 300 stage productions in New York and regional theatre, Ludlum wrote his first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971). The book was published after 10 rejection slips, but it became an immediate best-seller.u00a0
The Bourne Identity (1980) started a series of novels, where the character of Carlos was partly based on the Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who in real life was captured in 1994 in Sudan.
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