Whenever I start a novel, I’m always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go ‘what if?’ and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
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Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
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Birth: | 20th August, 1961 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Veterinary Surgeon |
James Rollins is a pen name of James Paul Czajkowski was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an American veterinarian and writer of action-thriller, mystery, and techno-thriller novels who gave up his veterinary practice in Sacramento, California to be a full-time writer. He graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1985 with a doctorate in veterinary medicine. He has written Action-adventure novels include: Subterranean, Excavation, Deep Fathom, Amazonia, Ice Hunt, and Altar of Eden. Under the pen name James Clemens, he has also published fantasy novels, such as Wit'ch Fire, Wit'ch Storm, Wit'ch War, Wit'ch Gate, Wit'ch Star, Shadowfall and Hinterland.
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