Roderick Thorp
Birthday:
1 September 1936, The Bronx, New York, USA
Birth Name:
Roderick Mayne Thorp Jr.
Novelist, short-story writer, teacher -- and private detective. He wrote two novels that would be turned into theatrical films, "The Detective" (1966), which became The Detective (1968); and "Nothing Lasts Forever" (1979), which became Die Hard (1988). His 1986 novel "Rainbow Drive" was later produced as a made-for-TV ...
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Novelist, short-story writer, teacher -- and private detective. He wrote two novels that would be turned into theatrical films, "The Detective" (1966), which became The Detective (1968); and "Nothing Lasts Forever" (1979), which became Die Hard (1988). His 1986 novel "Rainbow Drive" was later produced as a made-for-TV movie. He taught literature and lectured on creative writing at schools and colleges in New Jersey and California, and wrote pieces for newspapers and magazines. Earlier, as a young college graduate, he had worked at a detective agency owned by his father. Show less «
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
