Steven Pressfield was born in September 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He graduated from Duke University in 1965. After his marriage, Pressfield moved to New York, where he worked as a copywriter for an advertising firm. Deciding that he could write as well as his boss, who left the case and published a very well-selling book, Stephen Pressfield also took up the pen. But in the following years, during which he wrote three novels that never saw the light of day, he had to go through divorce and
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Steven Pressfield was born in September 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He graduated from Duke University in 1965. After his marriage, Pressfield moved to New York, where he worked as a copywriter for an advertising firm. Deciding that he could write as well as his boss, who left the case and published a very well-selling book, Stephen Pressfield also took up the pen. But in the following years, during which he wrote three novels that never saw the light of day, he had to go through divorce and financial insolvency; he lived in a trailer, worked as a taxi driver and bartender in New York, a teacher in New Orleans, worked on a tractor in North Carolina and California, on oil rigs in Louisiana, picked fruit in Washington, and generally did all the things that fall to the writer out of business. However, starting in 1980, when he went to the West Coast, Pressfield for fifteen years participated as the author or co-writer of scripts for 34 films, among which - "King Kong is alive!", "Above the law", "Remember everything", "Runaway", "Bodyguard for hire". Widely known writer brought his historical novels about Ancient Greece - "Gates of Fire", "Tides of war", "The Last Amazon". In the United States, the books were successful, but in Greece they made a splash, taking several lines at once in the bestseller lists. The city of Sparta awarded him the title of honorary citizen. Stephen Pressfield also owns the novels The War of the Arts and The Legend of Bagger Vance. In the autumn of 2004, his new book, “The Virtues of War”, tells about Alexander the Great, was published.