Coonts was awarded several commendations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info, and giveaways by email. Stephen Coonts (born July 19, 1946) is an American thriller and suspense novelist. [1] After joining the Navy upon graduation and then going to Officer Candidate School, Coonts went to flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola and earned his wings as a Naval Aviator in 1969. He attended Pasadena City College for two years, then enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War and served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer in the Military Air ...
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He majored in political science at West Virginia University, graduating in 1968 with an A.B.
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He then worked as a lawyer for several oil and gas companies, pursuing his writing interests in his free time. Following high school graduation, he earned a B.A. Publicity Listings | Readalikes. Stephen Coonts is the author of innumerable New York Times bestsellers, the first of which was the classic flying tale, Flight of the Intruder. The author of Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel. Stephen Coonts is the author of innumerable New York Times bestsellers, the first of which was the classic flying tale, Flight of the Intruder. So, please help us - if the information about this author is out of date or inaccurate, and you know of a more complete source, please let us know. [2][3] In 2014 West Virginia University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
Upon graduation he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida. This launched his career as a novelist, and he continued writing adventure-thrillers, most of them based on the main character from his first book, Jake Grafton. He left active duty in 1977 and moved to Colorado. by Martin Cruz Smith, Clive Cussler grew up in Alhambra, California. Spam Free: Your email is never shared with anyone; opt out any time. He is a writer, known for Flight of the Intruder (1991), AOPA Live This Week (2012) and Pritzker Military Library Presents (2006).
Born in 1946, Stephen Paul Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a coal-mining town of 6,000 population on the western slope of the Appalachian mountains.
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He was inducted into the West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 1992. Early life, education, and military career, "Reading Order of the Jake Grafton Series as Suggested by The Author", "Reading Order of the Tommy Carmellini Series as Suggested by The Author", "Saucer: The Conquest: Stephen Coonts: Amazon.com: Books", "Saucer: Savage Planet: Stephen Coonts: 9781250061980: Amazon.com: Books", Stephen Coonts audio interview with National Review Online, Modern Signed Books BlogTalkRadio Interview with Rodger Nichols about The Art of War March 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Coonts&oldid=954548553, American naval personnel of the Vietnam War, Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States), 20th-century American non-fiction writers, 21st-century American non-fiction writers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 3 May 2020, at 00:46.
After short stints as a taxi driver and police officer, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law in the fall of 1977. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. by Clive Cussler. degree. Peopled with the rich, vivid characters that have made Stephen Coonts famous world-wide, LIBERTY is action and suspense from the very first page. Coonts separated from the active duty Navy as a lieutenant in 1977 but remained as reserve officer, retiring as a commander with a total of 21 years of service. Coonts was later assigned to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and VA-128 to train in the A-6 Intruder, a medium attack, all-weather and carrier-based jet.
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© BookBrowse LLC 1997-2020. Today, Coonts continues to write, having had sixteen New York Times bestsellers (out of 36 books). He has been married to Deborah Buell since April 12, 1995.
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The novel, based in part on his experiences as an A-6 pilot during the Vietnam War, remained for 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and later (1991) was made into a movie. Coonts has also written several other series and stand-alone novels, but is best known for the Grafton books.
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