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David Morrell (b. 1943) is the author of First Blood, the award-winning novel in which Rambo was created. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the Pennsylvania State University and was a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa until he gave up his tenure to devote himself to a full-time writing career. “The mild-mannered professor with the bloody-minded visions,” as one reviewer called him, Morrell has written numerous best-selling thrillers that include The Brotherhood of the Rose (the basis for a highly rated NBC-TV mini-series in 1989), The Fifth Profession and Extreme Denial (set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives). His recent books are a collection of dark-suspense stores, Nightscape, and Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing, a discussion of what he has learned during his more-than-thirty years as an author. There are eighteen million copies of his books in print. His fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages and his short stories have appeared in many of the major horror/fantasy anthologies of the past twenty years, including the Whispers, Shadows, Night Visions, Masters of Darkness III, The Dodd Mead Gallery of Horror, Psycho Paths, Prime Evil, Dark at Heart, MetaHorror, Revelations, 999, Redshift and Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy. Two of his novellas received Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association. He has also been nominated for two other Stokers and has twice been nominated for the World Fantasy Award.