Warren Adler

Warren Adler (born December 16, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York) is a world renowned American novelist and playwright with books translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Adler graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and New York University, where he majored in English literature. Inspired by his freshman professor, Don Wolfe, Adler went on to study creative creating under Wolfe and Dr. Charles Glicksburg at the New School, his classmates included Mario Puzo and William Styron. Following his graduation Adler worked at the New York City newspaper, New York Daily News, before becoming Editor of the Queens Post. During the Korean War, Adler served in the Army and was recruited by the Armed Forces Press Service to serve as the sole Washington Correspondent at the Pentagon. His by-line was published in every Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard publication. He went on to have a successful business career, acquiring four radio stations and a television station. However, writing fiction always remained a passion and he began to pursue as a literary career with the publication of his first novel in 1974. Since then, he has written another twenty-four novels including The War of The Roses and Random Hearts both of which were adapted into motion pictures and went on to become worldwide hits. The War of The Roses, directed by Danny DeVito, starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Random Hearts starred Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas. Adler has also written five short story collections. The stories from his acclaimed collection, The Sunset Gang, became an American Playhouse three-hour television production in 1991 and in 2002, a pilot was produced based on The Fiona FitzGerald Mysteries. He has sold or optioned twelve books for film including Private Lies which fetched more than 1.2 million dollars, one of the highest prices ever for a novel. The picture was never made.

Warren Adler is noted for his efforts to encourage new authors. He is the founder of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and his website is lauded for its information for aspiring authors.

Warren is a pioneer in electronic publishing and has acquired his complete backlist and converted this entire library to digital publishing formats. As a novelist, Mr. Adler's themes deal primarily with intimate human relationships—the mysterious nature of love and attraction, the fragile relationships between husbands and wives and parents and children, the corrupting power of money, the aging process and how families cling together when challenged by the outside world. Readers and reviewers have cited his books for their insight and wisdom in presenting and deciphering the complexities of contemporary life. All of Warren's books are available in E-Book format.

Warren also has a blog which he updates frequently and blogs about items from politics to literature to pop culture and the movies.

In 2006, Warren began The Warren Adler Short Story Contest which is fast becoming the most prestigious online short story contest thanks to the extraordinary literary quality of the submissions. A new contest has begun and submissions will be accepted from April 13, 2009-July 13, 2009.

Warren can be found on the numerous social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter (warrenadler), Gather, Eons, and MySpace. Warren enjoys interacting with his fans worldwide and the many budding writers out there.

Works

Novels

The Children of the Roses
Cult
Mourning Glory
Random Hearts
Trans-Siberian Express
The Casanova Embrace
Blood Ties
Natural Enemies
Banquet Before Dawn
The Housewife Blues
Madeline's Miracles
We Are Holding the President Hostage
Private Lies
Twilight Child
The Henderson Equation
Undertow (also entitled Waters of Decision and Options)
The War of The Roses
Funny Boys

Short stories

The Fiona FitzGerald Mysteries

References

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