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Rodney William Whitaker (better known by his penname Trevanian, 1931-2005) was an author. Trevanian is best known for his thriller novels.

Life[]

Born in the town of Granville, New York in June of 1931, Rodney lived in poverty for much of his early years (several of which were spent in Albany), Rodney was educated at the University of Washington, where he wrote and directed a three-act play under the guidance of Jerry Pournelle. After receiving a master's degree in drama from Washington, he got a doctorate in communications and film from Northwestern University in Illinois.

Rodney then taught at the private Dana College in the Nebraska city of Blair - becoming the chairman of the university's communications division - before joining the Navy and serving in the Korean War and receiving a Fulbright scholarship. While writing The Eiger Sanction and The Loo Sanction, Rodney (who had taken the name "Trevanian" based on his wife's appreciation of the historian G. M. Trevelyan) was working at the University of Texas at Austin as the chairman of their Department of Radio, TV, and Film.

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Writing style[]

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Notable works[]

  • The Language of Film (under the name Rod Whitaker) - a non-fiction book
  • 1339...or So: Being an Apology for a Pedlar (under the name Nicholas Seare) - an adaptation of Eve of the Bursting
  • Rude Tales and Glorious (under the name Nicholas Seare) - a reworking of the Arthurian Mythos

As Trevanian[]

  • The Eiger Sanction - a satire of thriller novels, about an art professor being involved in a plot
  • The Loo Sanction - a sequel to The Eiger Sanction, made into a more on-the-nose spoof
  • The Main - a detective novel
  • Shibumi - Trevanian's most well-known novel, a satire of thriller novels in which an assassin fights back against a mysterious company
  • The Summer of Katya - a mix between a romance and a psychological thriller
  • Incident at Twenty-Mile - a Western about a madman escaping from prison
  • Hot Night in the City - a collection of short stories
  • The Crazyladies of Pearl Street - a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story

See also[]

  • Robert Ludlum
  • John le Carré
  • Ian Fleming
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • Eric van Lustbader
  • Don Winslow
  • W.E.B. Griffin
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