Description:
Hunter began working as a copy editor at the Baltimore Sun in 1971 and became its film critic in 1982. He joined the Washington Post as its movie critic in 1997 and won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for the criticism in 1998. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2003 and took a buyout from the Post in 2008. He published The Master Sniper, the first of his 24 novels, in 1980. He also has published three nonfiction volumes: Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem; Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies; and American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out that Stopped It.
Birthday
March 25, 1946
Born In
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Trivia
Hunter has published eight books about his character Bob Lee Swagger:
Point of Impact, Black Light, Time to Hunt, The 47th Samurai, Night of
Thunder, I, Sniper, Dead Zero, and The Third Bullet.In addition, he has written three prequels focusing on Bob Lee's
legendary father, Earl Swagger: Hot Springs, Pale Horse Coming, and
Havana. Earl also makes a cameo appearance (in flashback) in Hunter's
novel The 47th Samurai.
Quotes
On the latest Bob Lee Swagger novel: "... The new book is a result of
my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called
'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan
in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone
missing under extremely violent circumstances. He finds himself matched
against some totally bad but cool Yakuza killers and the action jumps
all over Tokyo. It ends with what I had hoped to be (you guys will have
to tell me if I brought it off) the coolest, most realistic one-on-one
to the death sword fight in print."
