About
An American fiction writer and film scholar, he is best known for such novels as The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, and The Main. During the 1970s and 1980s, he published five novels that sold a combined total of more than five million copies.
Before Fame
He taught at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, and also served in the US Navy during the Korean War.
Trivia
He was born Rodney William Whitaker and later adopted the pen name of Trevanian.
Family Life
He was born in New York, and he later attended the University of Washington. With his wife, Diane Brandon, he had four children.
Associated With
It was once rumored that Trevanian was really the writer Robert Ludlum.
