Some legends will be remembered forever, and they deserve to be. Tom Clancy is one of them, who would have turned 79 today, April 12, 2026. Sadly, the bestselling author died in 2013, although his works will live on forever.
While many have read his books, there are some who will only know of them because of the success of the Prime Video series Jack Ryan. It was the best adaptation of Clancy’s work, although there were other movie attempts. Sadly, Clancy never got to see the adaptation, as it didn’t premiere until 2018.
An Author Until the End
Clancy originally started publishing his novels in 1983, and he continued to write until his death. While he is best known for his series focusing on Jack Ryan, he has written about other characters. His later works even focused on Ryan’s son and nephews to help continue the story.
His first novel, The Hunt for Red October, was the first in the Jack Ryan series, set during the Cold War. When Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius goes rogues with a cutting-edge ballistic missile submarine, the CIA has to step in. This introduces Jack Ryan, the analyst working for the CIA, who needs to prove his theory that Ramius actually wants to defect to the United States.
The story would then continue with The Patriot Games and soon he found himself with a whole series devoted to this main character. However, he would also co-author with others, including via Red Storm Rising with Larry Bond and SSN with Martin Greenberg.
He also wasn’t afraid to getinto the world of non-fiction, releasing titles such as Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship and Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit. He made sure to do the research, as he was an insurance agent when he first started writing!
American novelist Tom Clancy (1947 - 2013), 26th February 1998. (Photo by Colin Davey/Getty Images)Getty Images
Tom Clancy Became the Cornerstone of Publishing at Putnam
Deborah Grosvenor, the editor at the Naval Institute Press, knew that Clancy was going to be a huge hit, and she made sure that The Hunt for Red October landed at her publishing house. It was the right call, as this was a novel that President Ronald Reagan praised, leading to a boost of 300,000 hardcover copies and two million paperback copies!
Despite his background in insurance, Clancy brought technical accuracy to the story, leading to meeting with several of the U.S. military’s high-ranking officers at the time. However, Putnam would end up getting their hands on the next books.
Red Storm Rising would be the first to be published at Putnam, where Clancy quickly became the cornerstone of the publishing house. With 17 novels making it to the New York Times Bestseller list and him becoming one of just three authors to sell more than two million first-print copies in the 1990s, it’s not a surprise.
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