tom clancy
Tom Clancy Tom Clancy is one of the most popular best-selling authors in the world. ... This paper will tell about the life of Tom Clancy beginning with a brief overview of his life in general, followed by his personal life and early writing career. This is followed by a description of Clancy’s unique writing style and listings of his major accomplishments. ... Finally, the paper will comment on some work that Clancy has done outside the writing field, and finishing off with the closing. ... Clancy Jr. ... Clancy was educated in Catholic schools as a child, attended Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned a degree in English (Speace 98). Clancy then tried to enlist in the army. ... Clancy said, "I thought I would have made a good tank commander," even though his childhood dreams had been broken when he was kept from entering into the military (Speace 99). ... In 1969, Clancy married Wanda Thomas, who was an eye surgeon and an insurance agency manager (Speace 98). They had four children, Michelle, Christine, Tom, and Kathleen, and also a dog named Freddie (Cohen 115). ... She found out that Clancy had been having an affair with a woman named Katherine Huang (Schindehette 1). After the divorce, Clancy became close to a woman named Alexandra Llewellyn, a thirty-one year old former television reporter. ... Though Clancy did not publish any books till later in life, he became involved in writing at an early age. Clancy remembers, "The writing bug bit me when I was in high school. ... In 1971, Clancy read, Day of the Jackal, by Frederic Forsyth, which inspired Clancy to begin writing thrillers (Cohen 3). Clancy then quit his job, bought a typewriter and began to write on his kitchen table. ... Clancy wrote from November of 1982 to February of 1983 to finish the book later published as The Hunt for Red October (Greenberg 59). When Clancy had finished the book, he took immediate steps for it to be published. Clancy never imagined how well the book would sell. ... Clancy was asked after writing The Hunt for Red October, "How could you have written Hunt for Red October without ever having gone on a submarine?