However, he had been a long time “a closet writer,” as he once said. In 1957 he became a producer at the North Jersey Playhouse, Fort Lee, New Jersey and in 1960 he opened the Playhouse-on-the-Mall in Paramus.Īfter producing 300 stage productions for New York and regional theatre, Ludlum wrote his first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971), a tale about Nazis and international financiers. In The Strong Are Lonely by Fritz Hichwalder (1952) Ludlum played a soldier, he was Spartacus in The Gladiator (1954), and D’Estivel in Saint Joan by G.B. Usually he was casted as a lawyer or a killer. He was in 200 television dramas, among them The Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, and Robert Montgomery Presents. In the 1950s Ludlum worked as a stage and television actor. In the same year he married the actress Mary Ryducha they had three children. After studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ludlum received his B.A. He was was posted to the South Pacific, where he wrote a manuscript of some two hundred pages of his impressions. The attempt failed and Ludlum served as an infantryma in 1945- 47 in the U.S. During World War II Ludlum tried to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. Before acting in the comedy Junior Miss on Broadway at sixteen, Ludlum had already appeared in school theatricals – his first ambition, however, was to be a quaterback in football. He was educated privately and at the Chesire Academy, Connecticut. His father, George Hartford Ludlum, was a businessman he died in 1934. From that point of view, yes, I guess, I am theatrical.” (Ludlum in Bestsellers: Top Writers Tell How, 1997) I think it’s all suspense and ‘what-happens-next’. “So I suppose I equate suspense and good theatre in a very similar way. Finally, against all odds, they defeat seemingly superior adversaries. Heroes are thrown into a web of intrigues, where they do not know who is their real friend and who is the enemy. Characteristic for Ludlum’s stories is a paranoid view of the world, in which global corporations and shadowy military and governmental organizations undermine the international status quo. Although critics considered his style melodramatic and the plots unbelievable, the author often used material from current events in international politics.
Ludlum’s special skill is to capture the imagination of his readers from the first pages, and keep them absorbed in the story. Ludlum started his literary career relatively late, after working in the theatre, both as actor and producer. American thriller writer whose violent, fast-paced books have sold some 290 million copies worldwide.
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