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Ludlum, Robert

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Ludlum, Robert

(born May 25, 1927, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 12, 2001, Naples, Fla.) U.S. author of spy thrillers. He worked in the theatre as an actor and a successful producer and acted for television before turning to writing. Among his best-sellers were The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971), The Osterman Weekend (1972; film, 1983), The Matarese Circle (1979), and The Bourne Identity (1980; film, 1988, 2002). Though critics often found his plots unlikely and his prose uninspired, his fast-paced combination of international espionage, conspiracy, and mayhem proved enormously popular.


Ludlum, Robert (Jonathan Ryder, Michael Shepherd, pen names) (1927–  ) writer, actor; born in New York City. He served in the Marine Corps (1944–46) and studied at Wesleyan (B.A. 1951). He became a Broadway and television actor (1952–60), and a theater producer in New Jersey (1957–70) and New York City (1960–69). With the publication of his first espionage novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971), he became a successful full-time writer of suspense fiction. He lived in Hartford, Conn.

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