![]() Anyway, I had this idea that Hemingway, when I looked at his work, could be considered an action writer. I have written for movies, but it’s not what I primarily do. It turns out I didn’t go into that latter direction very much. I always wanted to be a writer, either a novelist or a screenwriter. I had come to the United States to study with a Hemingway expert named Philip Young. When I started First Blood I was a graduate student at Penn State University. What, in your opinion, gives First Blood this lasting power? And I thought it was just wonderful for Ira, even though he wasn’t around to enjoy it. ![]() I was a literature professor for many years and I enjoy writing about books. A couple of years ago Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby was fifty years old and the publisher asked me to write an introduction for it. Any author who sits down to write a book and says it will still be in print after fifty years is hallucinating. ![]() ![]() This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of your novel, First Blood. ![]()
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