Steven Pressfield
American novelist and screenwriter; wrote The War of Art and Gates of Fire.
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- Steven Pressfield is an American author of historical fiction, nonfiction and screenplays.
- His first novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995), became a 2000 film directed by Robert Redford.
- Gates of Fire (1998), about the Spartans at Thermopylae, is taught at West Point and the US Naval Academy.
- The War of Art (2002) is about the inner resistance that blocks creative work.
- In 2012 he started the publishing house Black Irish Books with his agent Shawn Coyne.
Key facts
- Born
- 1 September 1943, Port of Spain, Trinidad1
- Education
- Duke University (1965); US Marine Corps infantryman from 19661
- Novels
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995); Gates of Fire (1998); Tides of War (2000); The Virtues of War (2004); Killing Rommel (2008); A Man at Arms (2021)1
- Nonfiction
- The War of Art (2002); Do the Work (2011); Turning Pro (2012); Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t (2016); The Artist's Journey (2018)1
- Screenplays
- King Kong Lives (1986); Above the Law (1988); Freejack (1992); Joshua Tree (1993)1
- Publisher
- Black Irish Books, started in 2012 with Shawn Coyne1
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