Tom Clancy FAQ - Authors
Biographical Data about Authors
Tom Clancy
Father of four. Catholic. Owned and operated independent
insurance business before starting writing career. Did not serve
in any branch of the US Military. Jesuit education - 8 years.
From Tom Clancy himself:
Does anybody know Tom
Clancy's birthdate??? names of 4 kids??? Official status of he
and his wife, Wanda? Wanda's birthdate? The name of Tom's
highschool? The name of his college? His major there? Where Tom
was born? Any other facts about Tom...
I was born on April 12, 1947 at Franklin Square Hospital,
Baltimore, MD.
The names of my kids. No, even celebrities are allowed to have a
private life, and my kids are not public figures.
My wife and me? See above.
High school and college: Loyola High School, Towson, MD, class
of 1965. Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, class of 1969.
English Literature. I wasn't smart enough to do physics.
See above.
Lots.
TC
Clancy divorced his first wife, Wanda, in 1998 after 27-29
years of marriage (depending on which source you use). The
divorce became much more public than TC ever would have liked
because of his simultaneous attempts to purchase the Minnesota
Vikings. According to
Mr. Showbiz News, Mrs. Clancy had filed for divorce two
years prior (1996) with the reason given in her petition being
that her husband had "committed adultery with one Katherine
Huang," who was a New York assistant district attorney he
supposedly met on the Internet. This was also reported in MSN
Entertainment
here.
Along with his personal life, Clancy's financial data became
public as a result of the Vikings purchase attempt. An article,
written by WCCO of Minneapolis, provides many of the details and
is available here:
Paper Probes Clancy Cash Crunch. The attempt to buy the
Vikings is chronicled in this article and associated links:
It's Official: Clancy Chapter Closed
According to a story in New Jersey Online, Clancy, 52 at the
time, married Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, 32, on June 26, 1999.
This wedding was also reported in MSN Entertainment
here. It was previously reported in the Washington Post
that he was to marry a niece of Colin Powell just after the
divorce to his first wife was finalized. We may never know for
sure given Mr. Clancy's zealous protection of his personal life.
Want to know what Clancy did for New Year's, 2000? Check out
this
link.
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Larry Bond
The following is the autobiographic sketch Larry Bond sent to
the Harpoon mailing list.
Biographical Sketch: Larry Bond is 45 and lives with his
wife Jeanne and daughters Katie and Julia in Virginia
outside Washington DC. He is the designer of the Harpoon and
Command at Sea gaming systems and several supplements for
the games. He also co-authored Red Storm Rising with Tom
Clancy and has recently finished The Enemy Within, published
by Warner Books in hardcover February 1996, and softcover
February 1997. He has three other novels to his credit, Red
Phoenix, Vortex and Cauldron.
Larry's writing career started by collaborating with Tom
Clancy on Red Storm Rising, a runaway New York Times
bestseller that has been called one of the best-selling
books of the 1980s. It depicted a hypothetical conflict
between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, drawing heavily on current
analysis of what such a conflict would be like. It has been
used as a text at the Naval War College and similar
institutions.
Since then, Larry's books have depicted military and
political crises, emphasizing accuracy and fast-paced
action. Red Phoenix , Vortex, and Cauldron were all New York
Times bestsellers. Red Phoenix was set in South Korea and
depicted an invasion of the south by a decaying North Korean
government. Vortex told the story of a reactionary Afrikaner
government trying to roll back the clock in South Africa.
Cauldron showed a financial crisis in Europe that grew out
of control, leading to a military confrontation between
France and the United States.
Larry's Harpoon gaming system was first published in
1980. Designed as a general-purpose air, surface, and
submarine naval simulation, it combines playability with a
wealth of information on modern naval weapons systems.
Designed for the entry-level player, it has found acceptance
in both the commercial market and the professional naval
community. It is used at the Naval Academy, several ROTC
installations, and on several surface ships as a training
aid.
Now in its fourth edition, Harpoon has won the H.G. Wells
Award, a trade association honor, in both 1981 and 1987 as
the best miniatures game of the year. It is the only game to
win the award twice. The computer version of the game first
appeared in 1990, and won the 1990 Wargame of the Year award
from Computer Gaming World, an industry journal. An updated
version of the single-player game has been released, and a
multiplayer version is in preparation.
Command at Sea is Larry's latest game, and is an
adaptation of Harpoon to the WW II era. Like Harpoon, it
emphasizes both playability and historical accuracy, drawing
on many contemporary sources.
Graduating from St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minnesota
in 1973 with a degree in Quantitative Methods, Larry worked
first as a computer programmer for two years before being
selected for Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode
Island. He was sworn into the Navy in 1975 and graduated
from OCS the following year.
Larry was in the Navy for six years, serving four on a
destroyer and two on shore duty in the Washington DC area.
He served in the reserves for two years with the Naval
Reserve Intelligence Program. After leaving the Navy he
worked as a naval analyst for defense consulting firms in
the Washington, DC area. He now writes and designs games
full-time.
Larry is an avid wargamer and modeler.
Published Work
Harpoon First Edition, 1981, Adventure Games Incorporated.
Resolution 502, 1982, Adventure Games Incorporated.
Harpoon Second Edition, 1983, Adventure Games Incorporated.
Red Storm Rising, with Tom Clancy, 1985, Putnam
Harpoon Third Edition, 1987, Game Designer's Workshop
Battles From the Third World War, 1987, Game Designer's Workshop
Red Phoenix, with Pat Larkin, 1989, Warner Books
Computer Harpoon, 1990, Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc.
The Harpoon SITREP (20 issues - 1989 to 1994)
Harpoon Data Annex 3.2, 1990, Game Designer's Workshop
Harpoon Captain's Edition, 1990, Game Designer's Workshop
Vortex, with Pat Larkin, 1991, Warner Books
Cauldron, with Pat Larkin, 1993, Warner Books
Command at Sea, with Chris Carlson and Ed Kettler, 1994, Clash of Arms
The Naval SITREP (10 issues - 1995 and continuing)
Command at Sea Player's Handbook, with Chris Carlson
and Ed Kettler, 1995, Clash of Arms
Command at Sea Second Edition, with Chris Carlson
and Ed Kettler, 1995, Clash of Arms
Harpoon Fourth Edition, with Chris Carlson, 1996, Clash of Arms
As noted in the first paragraph, Mr. Bond wrote a book titled
"The Enemy Within" again with Pat Larkin (Copyright date 1996).
Since the date of that biographical sketch, Mr. Bond and Mr.
Larkin have also written "Day of Wrath", published and released
in 1998.
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Steve Pieczenik
Dr. Steve Pieczenik, MD has a PhD in International Affairs
from MIT. His MD was received from Cornell University Medical
College. He has served as a deputy assistant secretary with four
U.S. secretaries of state: Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George
Schultz, and James Baker. In addition to being the co-creator of
Tom Clancy's Op-Center series (movie and books), he has authored
the novels Pax Pacifica, Maximum Vigilance, The Mind Palace,
Hidden Passions, Blood Heat, and State of Emergency. Dr.
Pieczenik was also the co-creater of Tom Clancy's Netforce. Dr.
Pieczenik has a web page (http://www.stevepieczenik.com/)
which provides additional biographical data.
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Martin H. Greenberg
Editor of "The Tom Clancy Companion" and co-creator of "Tom
Clancy's Power Plays: Politika". It appears that Mr. Greenberg
is the editor of at least some Clancy novels as well.
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John D. Gresham
Titled as "Series Researcher" of Tom Clancy's non-fiction
"guided tour" books. No other data available. He has no books
to his sole credit even though he is a major contributor to the
"guided tour" books.
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Jeff Rovin
In the Op-Center books, Mr. Rovin is thanked for his
"invaluable contribution to the manuscript." This is taken to
mean that Mr. Rovin is the manuscript author. Jeff Rovin appears
to have a number of books to his credit ranging from "Adventure
Heroes : Legendary Characters from Odysseus to James Bond" to
"Broken Arrow: A Novelization" (which appears to be the novel
associated with the popular motion picture). While not well
known, Mr. Rovin appears to have been involved in a number of
behind-the-scenes projects.
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General Fred Franks, USA (Ret.)
General Franks was the 3-star General commander of the VI
Corps in Desert Storm. VI Corps was the "fist" in General
Schwarzkopf's plan for the liberation of Kuwait and destruction
of the Iraqi Republican Corps. General Franks was promoted to
4-star General and took over the U.S. Army's Training and
Doctrine Command before retiring. General Franks co-wrote "Into
the Storm: A Study in Command" with Tom Clancy. He has now
joined Red Storm Entertainment and was involved in the game
Force 21.
General Chuck Horner, USAF (Ret.)
General Horner was the air component commander in Desert
Storm under General Schwarzkopf. General Horner was
subsequently promoted to four-stars and took over command of
U.S. Space Command. After retirement, General Horner co-wrote
the second "Study in Command" book with Tom Clancy, Every Man a
Tiger.
General Carl Stiner, USA (Ret.)
General Stiner rose to become CINCSOC through the ranks of
Special Forces and the Airborne. General Stiner commanded the
forces involved in the Panama invasion but was also part of
several very interesting special operations. General Stiner
co-wrote the third "Study in Command" book with Tom Clancy,
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