Clive Cussler, the million-selling adventure writer and real-life thrill seeker who wove personal details and spectacular fantasies into his page-turning novels about underwater explorer Dirk Pitt, has died.
This 2007 image released by G.P. Putnam's Sons shows author Clive Cussler riding in a classic car. Cussler died on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 at his home in Scottsdale, AZ. He was 88.
Cussler dispatched Pitt and pal Al Giordino on exotic missions highlighted by shipwrecks, treachery, espionage and beautiful women, in popular works including"Cyclops,'' “Night Probe!” and his commercial breakthrough,"Raise the Titanic!" Cussler has a new novel, “Journey of the Pharaohs," set to be released March 10, with several more awaiting posthumous publication.
Born an only child in 1931 in Aurora, Illinois, and raised in Alhambra, California, Cussler's name and writing persona have the air of a pseudonym, but he was born with his moniker, named for the British actor Clive Brook. He studied for two years at Pasadena City College before enlisting in the Air Force and serving as a mechanic and flight engineer during the Korean War.
“When creating advertising, I had always looked at the competition and wondered what I could conceive that was totally different,” Cussler said in an interview included in"Dirk Pitt Revealed," a nonfiction book released in 1998." Bond was becoming incredibly popular through the movies, and I knew I couldn't match Ian Fleming's style and prose. So I was determined not to write about a detective, secret agent or undercover investigator or deal in murder mysteries.
"Mediterranean Caper" came out in 1973, followed by"Iceberg" two years later and"Raise the Titanic!" in 1976. He would turn out more than 20 Dirk Pitt novels and expand into children's books and such adventure series as"The Oregon Files" and"The Numa Files."
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