While working at the insurance agency, he wrote his debut novel, The Hunt for Red October (1984). In 1980, he purchased the insurance agency from his wife's grandmother and wrote novels in his spare time. Bowen Agency, a small insurance agency based in Owings, Maryland, founded by his wife's grandfather. Īfter graduating, Clancy worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He joined the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps however, he was ineligible to serve due to his myopia (nearsightedness), which required him to wear thick eyeglasses. While at Loyola College, he was president of the chess club. He then attended the associated Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland) in Baltimore, graduating in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in English literature. He graduated from Loyola High School in 1965. Clancy's siblings are Patrick and Margaret.Ĭlancy's mother worked to send him to Loyola High School in Towson, Maryland, a private Catholic secondary school taught by the Jesuit religious order ( Society of Jesus). He was a member of Troop 624 of the Boy Scouts of America.
He was the second of three children to Thomas Clancy, who worked for the United States Postal Service, and Catherine Langan Clancy, who worked in a store's credit department. Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors.Ĭlancy was born on April 12, 1947, at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Northwood neighborhood in northeast Baltimore. Tom Clancy's works also inspired games such as the Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, The Division, and Splinter Cell series. His works The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991) have been turned into commercially successful films. Originally an insurance agent, his literary career began in 1984 when he sold his first military thriller novel The Hunt for Red October for $5,000 published by the small academic Naval Institute Press of Annapolis, Maryland. He was a part-owner of his hometown Major League Baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles of the American League, and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects occasionally with co-authors, and video games. Seventeen of his novels have been bestsellers and more than 100 million copies of his books have been sold. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist.
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