The Legend of Bagger Vance, the novel written by him, was made into a 2000 film featuring Matt Damon as the golf genius and Will Smith as his otherworldly guide.Īs till the record of 2007, he has written 34 screenplays in total, out of which six have been filmed.

Joshua Tree was coordinated by Academy Award and Bafta winning double Vic Armstrong. In 2012, he propelled the distributed house Black Irish Books with his operator Shawn Coyne.īefore distributed his first unique works of fiction, Pressfield composed a few Hollywood screenplays including King Kong Lives, 1988’s Above the Law featuring Steven Seagal and coordinated by Andrew Davis, 1992’s Freejack, a work of sci-fi featuring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, and Anthony Hopkins, and 1993’s Joshua Tree featuring Dolph Lundgren and George Segal. Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the Corps Basic School of Marinenext to Quantico.

His second novel, Gates of Fire, is about the Spartans and the fight at Thermopylae. His first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, was distributed in 1995, and made into a film of the same name, featuring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon, and coordinated by Robert Redford. The book has a subsequent titled “Do the Work”. Inside it, Pressfield highlights the diverse types of Resistance confronted by specialists, business visionaries, competitors, and others, who are attempting to get through its hindrances. His hard work to bring home the bacon as a writer, including the period when he was destitute and living out of the back of his auto, are itemized in his book The War of Art. After some years, he started working as amarketing and promotion specialist, tutor, the tractor-trailer motorist, barkeep, oilfield employee, supervisor in a mental remedial center, one of the native fruit picker in Washington state, and scriptwriter.

He moved on from Duke University in 1965 and in 1966 combinedwith the Marine Force. He was born in 1943, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, while his father was placed there, in the Navy, he was transferred there. The American author, Steven Pressfield, born in September 1943, is recognized for his historic fiction and non-fiction literatures and scripts.

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