Steven Pressfield
Sign in to saveAmerican screenwriter and novelist (1943-)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Works
- 77
Top works
- Gates of Fire
- War of Art, The
- I venti dell'Egeo
- The Legend of Bagger Vance
- Afghan Campaign
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 572
- Total plays
- 15,873
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 54,020x
- Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
· 1998 · cited 34,124x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,677x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 22,047x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,940x
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Quotes
- “I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon”
- “You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”
- “If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!”
- “There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. [...] I was wrong.”
- “I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up.”
- “This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Steven
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Port of Spain
- Occupation
- novelist
- Educated at
- Duke University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Military branch
- United States Marine Corps
- Official website
- www.stevenpressfield.com
- Image
- Author Steven Pressfield, June 2011.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1943-09-01
- social media followers
- 34854
- name in native language
- Steven Pressfield
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