| Warren Adler | |
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| Born | December 16, 1927 Brooklyn (New York), United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Sonia Adler |
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www.warrenadler.com |
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Warren Adler (born December 16, 1927) is a world-renowned American novelist, short story writer and playwright based in New York, NY. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages and two of his novels, The War of the Roses and Random Hearts, have been made into movies, shown continually throughout the world. Three short stories from his acclaimed collection The Sunset Gang have been adapted as a trilogy and shown on Public Television stations.
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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 writing under Wolfe and Dr. Charles Glicksburg at the New School, his classmates included Mario Puzo and William Styron.
Following 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 was was recruited by the Armed Forces Press Service 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 which he began to pursue as a career with the publication of his first novel in 1974.
Since then, he has written another thirty-one novels, including The War of The Roses and Random Hearts, both of which were made in motion pictures. 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. 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 relationshipshe 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.
In addition to his books, Warren blogs on his website, where he discusses a variety of topics such as writing, the entertainment business, eBooks, publishing and politics.[1]
Mr. Adler is a pioneer in electronic publishing. Ten years ago he envisioned that digital publishing would soon be the norm, and the publishing business would morph to digitization. He acquired his complete backlist and converted this entire library to digital publishing formats. He based this action on the fact that now his books would never go out of print, they would last beyond his lifetime and be a legacy for the perpetuation of his life’s work.
Mr. Adler wrote a piece for the Author’s Guild advocating that authors had better get ready for a seismic change in the way the traditional publishing business operates. He cited the fact that traditional publishers no longer have a monopoly on marketing, distribution, publicity, and content. He pointed out that prolific authors like himself had better take charge of their own destiny since the traditional publishers will slowly fade as the principle conduit for authors to get read.
Now, Mr. Adler’s predictions are coming true. In a few years, the big-box bookstore, the major outlet for the printed book, will be finished. Without this distribution arm, bookselling will become a digital item available on the Internet. Authors will no longer get big advances. Anyone who writes a book of whatever quality will be able to publish it on the Internet. Books will never go out of print. In a few years, there will be literally millions upon millions of books available on the Net.
Therein lies the challenge for the author. How does he get read? Mr. Adler has been experimenting with this idea for years. He recently made an exclusive six-book deal with Amazon, all material in his inventory that was introduced to the public for the first time.
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 which were submitted from all around the world. The first anthology of contest winners was printed in 2010.