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  • Tom Clancy

    (1947-2013)

    Who Was Tom Clancy?

    Tom Clancy was an American author best known for his espionage, military science and technological thrillers. Clancy worked as an insurance broker before writing his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, in 1984. Ten of Clancy's books earned No.

    1 rankings on The New York Times' best-seller list. More than 50 million copies of his books have been printed, and four have been made into movies.

    Early Life and 'The Hunt for Red October'

    Tom Clancy was born Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.

    on April 12, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Loyola Blakefield, a Catholic, all-boys' school in Towson, Maryland, before enrolling at Loyola College in Baltimore, where he studied literature.

    Clancy worked as an insurance broker before writing his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, in 1984.

    The book, which told the story of a Russian submarine crew's defection, made The New York Times' best-seller list after President Ronald Reagan open