Tom Clancy: American author (1947–2013)

His books are thrillers about politics, spys and the military. Most of his books include many technical details about their subjects. Seventeen of his novels were best-sellers, with over 100 million copies in print. His stories take place during and after the Cold War. He owned with some other people a Major League Baseball team. Clancy also produced popular video games.

Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy at Boston College's Burns Library in November 1989
Born	Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr. (1947-04-12)April 12, 1947 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	October 1, 2013(2013-10-01) (aged 66) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality	American
Period	1984–2013
Genre	Techno-thriller, crime fiction, non-fiction, spy fiction
Spouse	Wanda Clancy (m. 1969–1999) 4 children (divorced) Alexandra Llewellyn (m. 1999–2013) 1 child (his death)

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. was born on April 12, 1947, in Maryland. He finished school 1965. After school he studied English Literature at Loyola College in Baltimore and finished that in 1968. He said he studied English because he was not smart enough to do physics.

Clancy married his first wife, Wanda, in the 1970s. They have four children together and separated in 1998.

In 1993, Clancy bought with some other people the Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team) from Eli Jacobs.

In 1999, Clancy, at age 52, married the 32-year-old writer Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, on June 26. Llewellyn is a distant relative of Colin Powell.

Political views

Clancy is known to have been politically conservative, and gave over $200,000 to Republican Party politicians.

Clancy died October 1, 2013, of heart failure at Johns Hopkins Hospital, near his Baltimore home at age 66. Clancy is survived by his wife, Alexandra; their daughter, Alexis; and four children from a previous marriage to Wanda King: Michelle Bandy, Christine Blocksidge, Kathleen Clancy and Thomas Clancy III. His cause of death was later confirmed to be heart failure.

From the books The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears films were made, that many people wanted to see. The first NetForce book was filmed for television.

The website IMDB says that Tom Clancy's novel Without Remorse is to be made into a movie in 2008. No other details are available (27 June 2007).

Several books that are written by other writers have Tom Clancy's name on them, because the books are written in the same way and have the same stories as his own. These are:

• Tom Clancy's Op-Center
• Tom Clancy's Power Plays
• Tom Clancy's Net Force
• Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Only two books of Clancy are not with Jack Ryan and/or John Clark.