Author, creator of "Rambo", the incomparable David Morrell on Authors on the Air

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Professor David Morrell, creator of Rambo and co-founder of the International Thriller Writers organization.  David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. He was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. In 1960, at the age of seventeen, he became a fan of the classic television series, Route 66 about two young men in a Corvette convertible traveling the United States in search of America and themselves. The scripts by Stirling Silliphant combined action with ideas and so impressed Morrell that he decided to become a writer.That “father” of modern action novels was published in 1972 while Morrell was a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa. He taught American literature there from 1970 to 1986, simultaneously writing other novels, many of them international bestsellers, including the classic spy trilogy, The Brotherhood of the Rose,, The Fraternity of the Stone, and The League of Night and Fog.  Morrell’s latest novels, Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead, are Victorian mystery/thrillers that explore the fascinating world of 1850s London. Based on years of research, they attempt to make readers believe they are truly on those harrowing, fogbound streets. Both novels feature a controversial, brilliant literary figure of the era, THIS IS A LIVE SHOW - PLEASE CALL IN TO JOIN US 347-633-9609. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authorsontheair/2015/10/24/author-creator-of-rambo-the-incomparable-david-morrell-on-authors-on-the-air

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