词条 | Clive Cussler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 |
| name = Clive Cussler | image = Clive Cussler (2011).jpg | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Clive Eric Cussler | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1931|7|15}} | birth_place = Aurora, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist | period = 1973-present | genre = Adventure | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | signature = | website = {{url|clive-cussler-books.com}} }} Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931) is an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler is the founder and chairman[1] of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and numerous other notable underwater wrecks. He is the sole author or lead author of more than 70 books. Early lifeClive Cussler was born in Aurora, Illinois, and grew up in Alhambra, California. His mother Amy's ancestors were from England and his father Eric was from Germany.[1] He was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout when he was 14.[2] He attended Pasadena City College[3] for two years and then enlisted in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. During his service in the Air Force, he was promoted to sergeant and worked as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer for the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). CareerAfter his discharge from the military, Cussler went to work in the advertising industry, first as a copywriter and later as a creative director for two of the nation's most successful advertising agencies.[3] As part of his duties Cussler produced radio and television commercials, many of which won international awards including an award at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Following the publication in 1996 of Cussler's first nonfiction work, The Sea Hunters, he was awarded a Doctor of Letters degree in 1997 by the Board of Governors of the State University of New York Maritime College who accepted the work in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis. This was the first time in the college's 123-year history that such a degree had been awarded.[3] In 2002 Cussler was awarded the Naval Heritage Award from the U S Navy Memorial Foundation for his efforts in the area of marine exploration. Cussler is a fellow of the Explorers Club of New York, the Royal Geographical Society in London, and the American Society of Oceanographers.[4] Literary careerClive Cussler began writing in 1965 when his wife took a job working nights for the local police department where they lived in California. After making dinner for the children and putting them to bed, he had no one to talk to and nothing to do, so he decided to start writing.[5] His most famous creation is marine engineer, government agent and adventurer Dirk Pitt. The Dirk Pitt novels frequently take on an alternative history perspective, such as "what if Atlantis were real?" or "what if Abraham Lincoln wasn't assassinated, but was kidnapped?" The first two Pitt novels, The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg, were relatively conventional maritime thrillers. The third, Raise the Titanic!, made Cussler's reputation and established the pattern that subsequent Pitt novels would follow: a blend of high adventure and high technology, generally involving megalomaniacal villains, lost ships, beautiful women, and sunken treasure. Cussler's novels almost always begin with a chapter taking place in the past. These contain none of the novel's main characters and often seem disconnected from the plot until the main characters discover a mystery or secret connecting the events in the first chapter to the rest of the story. This almost always comes in the form of a long-lost artifact which holds the key to the villain's or hero's objectives. Often in the first chapter, a ship or plane carrying a top-secret, important, or dangerous cargo is lost and never found, until it is recovered by a modern character later in the book. Cussler's novels, like those of Michael Crichton, are examples of techno-thrillers that do not use military plots and settings. Where Crichton strove for scrupulous realism, however, Cussler prefers fantastic spectacles and outlandish plot devices. The Pitt novels, in particular, have the anything-goes quality of the James Bond or Indiana Jones movies, while also sometimes borrowing from Alistair MacLean's novels. Pitt himself is a larger-than-life hero reminiscent of Doc Savage and other characters from pulp magazines. Cussler has had more than seventeen consecutive titles reach The New York Times fiction best-seller list. NUMAAs an underwater explorer, Cussler has discovered more than sixty shipwreck sites[6] and has written non-fiction books about his findings. He is also the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), a non-profit organization with the same name as the fictional government agency that employs Dirk Pitt. Important finds by Cussler's N.U.M.A. include
A visual and interactive depiction of Cussler's NUMA Foundation Expeditions has been made available as an extension of NUMA's original website. Finds formerly believed to be important include:
Media appearancesIn what started as a joke in the novel Dragon that Cussler expected his editor to remove, he now often writes himself into his books. At first he wrote himself simple cameos, but later as something of a deus ex machina, providing the novel's protagonists with an essential bit of assistance or information. Often, the character is given an alias and not revealed as Cussler until his exit with the characters remarking on his odd name. The cameos include the Pitt adventures, as well as the Fargo Files books Lost Empire, Spartan Gold, Kingdom, and The Tombs. The Tombs also includes his wife, Janet. There are at least two other types of recurring in-jokes that are less obvious to a casual reader. One is the frequent reuse of the name Leigh Hunt for different characters in different novels. Seventeen books have had a character with this name, frequently in the opening prologues, frequently a sailor, usually dying; a notable exception is the first (in chronological order) Dirk Pitt adventure, Pacific Vortex, in which Admiral Leigh Hunter is a major character, commander of the 101st Recovery Fleet in Hawaii. In the introduction to Arctic Drift, Cussler says there was a real Leigh Hunt who died in 2007 and the novel is dedicated to him. Another is that significant events in several novels occur on July 15 (Cussler's birthday). He also uses the name "Periwinkle" in his works. In The Adventures of Vin Fiz (and in other works as well) there appears a donkey named Periwinkle. In Valhalla Rising, Periwinkle is the name of a catamaran in which Pitt, Giordino, and Misty Graham are rescued by none other than Cussler himself. Cussler's friend Craig Dirgo is mentioned in several books.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Adaptations
Reviews
Personal lifeClive Cussler married Barbara Knight in 1955, and they remained married for nearly fifty years until her death in 2003.[10] Together they had three children — Teri, Dirk, and Dayna — who have given him four grandchildren.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Cussler's daughter Teri is the creator and manager of the Cussler Museum[11] in Arvada, Colorado, which display's Cussler's collection of classic automobiles. BibliographyDirk Pitt Adventures
2) Also published as Mayday! 3) Novels featuring Dirk Pitt, and his children, Dirk Pitt Jr. and Summer Pitt. 4) Novels co-authored with Clive Cussler's son, Dirk. The NUMA FilesThis series of books focuses on Kurt Austin, Team Leader of NUMA's Special Assignments division and his adventures. Some characters from the Pitt novels appear such as Sandecker, Al Giordino, Rudi Gunn, Hiram Yaeger and St. Julien Perlmutter. Pitt makes brief appearances in the books Serpent, White Death, Polar Shift, Devil's Gate, The Storm, Zero Hour, and Ghost Ship and is mentioned in Lost City. Juan Cabrillo, the captain of the ship Oregon, also made an brief appearance in The Pharaoh's Secret.
The Oregon FilesThe Oregon Files features a ship named the Oregon which Cussler introduced in the Dirk Pitt Adventure Flood Tide (1997). While appearing to be a decrepit freighter, it is actually a high-tech advanced ship used by an unnamed and mysterious "Corporation" under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo. The ship is run like a business, with its crew being shareholders, taking jobs for the CIA and other agencies to help stop crime and terrorism. The crew is adept at disguises, combat, computer hacking, and more, to aid their missions. Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and Dirk Pitt all make cameo appearances in the fourth volume, Skeleton Coast (Cabrillo speaks to Pitt on the telephone; and Austin and Zavala appear at the end).
Isaac Bell AdventuresThese books are set mostly in the U.S. in the early part of the 20th century. They center around Isaac Bell, a brilliant investigator for the Van Dorn Detective agency, which appears to be modeled after the real-life Pinkerton Agency. Like Pitt, Bell has an affinity for automobiles and is a crack shot. The first book reveals that Bell survives into 1950 with a wife and grown children. Though the setting is a century ago, the books still qualify as techno-thrillers, since they feature the advanced technology of that time such as private express trains, telegraphs, telephones, dreadnought battleships and early airplanes. Isaac Bell also is a principal character of the background story in the Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure, "The Gray Ghost."
Fargo AdventuresThe series focuses on Sam and Remi Fargo, a couple who are professional treasure hunters.
Non-fiction
Children's books
(†) indicates books co-authored with Graham Brown. (‡) indicates books co-authored with Craig Dirgo. (§) indicates books co-authored with Jack Du Brul. (‖) indicates books co-authored with Justin Scott. (^) indicates books co-authored with Grant Blackwood. (+) indicates books co-authored with Thomas Perry. (×) indicates books co-authored with Russell Blake. (≠) indicates books co-authored with Boyd Morrison. (**) indicates books co-authored with Robin Burcell. Recurring charactersNUMA
Fargo Adventures
The Oregon Files
Isaac Bell Adventures
Other co-authorsCussler has co-authored books with other writers, such as Russell Blake.[13] References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dxBMJjQA_WsC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=amy%20eric%20Cussler&source=bl&ots=Y2AWARkXq3&sig=BryeMaF4dvzpbSxtBKjOOzzHfnA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoifSkmJXNAhURID4KHWOtD-0Q6AEINjAF#v=onepage&q=amy%20eric%20Cussler&f=false|title=Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed|first1=Clive|last1=Cussler|first2=Craig|last2=Dirgo|date=1 October 1998|publisher=Simon and Schuster|via=Google Books}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Cussler|first=Clive|authorlink=|author2=Dirgo, Craig |editor=|others=|title=Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed|origyear=|url=|format=|accessdate=|edition=|publisher=Pocket Books|location=New York|language=|isbn=0-671-02622-4}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.numa.net/clive-cussler-2/|title= NUMA.Net Clive Cussler Biography|accessdate=2007-10-06|format=Web Article|work= }} 4. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=329146&agid=13|title= Simon Says.com Clive Cussler Biography|accessdate=2007-02-22|format=Web Article|work= |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060629232050/http://simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=329146&agid=13 |archivedate = June 29, 2006}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-cussler-clive.asp|title= Bookreporter.com Clive Cussler Biography|accessdate=2007-02-22|format=Web Article|work= }} 6. ^{{cite book| last =Cussler| first =Clive| title =Valhalla Rising| publisher = Berkley Trade|date = 2004-10-26| pages = Inside dust jacket flap| isbn = 978-0-425-20404-7| id =039914787X| nopp =true}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article16409.ece|title=Dating of wreck's timbers puts wind in sails of the 'Mary Celeste' mystery|accessdate=2009-07-22 |publisher=The Independent |author=Jonathan Thompson |date=2005-01-23}} 8. ^{{cite web|url= https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/sea-greed |title=David Wood in The New York Journal of Books | |date=2018-11-06 |accessdate=2012-12-11}} 9. ^Glenn F. Bunting, $78 million of red ink?, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2007. 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/clive-cussler/person/292212/biography.html|title= TV.Com Clive Cussler Biography|accessdate=2007-02-22|format=Web Article|work= }} 11. ^{{cite book|last1=Cussler|first1=Clive|title=Built to Thrill|date=2016|publisher=Putnam|page=198}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/clive-cussler/assassin.htm|title=The Assassin|publisher=}} 13. ^{{cite news|work=Huffington Post The Blog|title=Indie Author Russell Blake on Working with the Great Clive Cussler| author=Rivera, Jeff|date=January 18, 2014|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-rivera/indie-author-russell-blak_b_4623828.html}} External links{{Wikiquote}}
23 : Clive Cussler|1931 births|20th-century American novelists|21st-century American novelists|American air force personnel of the Korean War|American adventure novelists|American people of German descent|American spy fiction writers|American people of English descent|American thriller writers|American underwater divers|American car collectors|Eagle Scouts|Living people|Pasadena City College alumni|People from Alhambra, California|People from Aurora, Illinois|People from the San Gabriel Valley|Techno-thriller writers|United States Air Force airmen|Novelists from California|American male novelists|Novelists from Illinois |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。