Robb white author biography for books

American novelist

For the retired National Football League player, see Robb White (American football).

Robb White III (20 June – 24 Nov. ) was an American writer of screenplays, television scripts, and adventure novels. Most of the latter had a maritime setting, often the PacificNavy during World War II. White was best known for juvenile fiction, though he has proven popular with adults as well. Nearly all his books are out of print; nevertheless, White has a devoted following among baby boomers, many of whom were introduced to him through inexpensive paperbacks available in American schools in the midth century.

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Robb T. White

First of all, tell us who are you and what you do:

I’m a retired college teacher of grammar and literature, who relishes every free day from his sedentary past to revel in his sedentary present. Married for over 50 years to my high-school sweetheart, I’m a father of three and grandfather of 3. I also have a black cat named Athena I scooped up years ago from my backyard, although she had an owner I was unaware of. I write stories and novels about bad people, dangerous thugs, psychotic assholes, both male and female, and a variety of other sickening trash, all of whom, for as bad as they are as fictive people, cannot compare to the actual shitheads of real humanity in every corner of life, especially in my rat’s nest in Northern Ohio.

What insights can you give us into the way(s) you find/get inspiration for your fiction?

I’m out-of-my-depth in advice-giving to anyone for any reason, and I feel humbled by the question. I know talk is cheap, it takes money to

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Robb vit Papers

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This collection holds the completed, edited typescripts for No Man's () and one of White's more famous works, Deathwatch () -- originally entitled "The Marauder." Both typescripts have been edited bygd the author, but bära no massive revisions compared to the published forms. The collection also holds typescripts for page one of Surrender () and Silent fartyg, Silent Sea ().

White confided to Something about the Author that he liked stories which dealt with ordinary people who survived in the face of terrible hardship. Each of the works represented in the vit collection reflect that conviction. White's work is typically hero-driven, a characteristic that emerges most clearly in Deathwatch where the protagonist battles not only his human persecutor, but the impersonal harshness of the American desert yet survives and outwits his formidable opponents: human and non-human.

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