VJ Books presents Eric Van Lustbader! Eric Van Lustbader was born and raised in
Greenwich Village. He dropped his middle name, Van, for several
years due to a confusion about his last name. Lustbader is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in
Sociology. Before turning to writing full time, he enjoyed highly
successful careers in the New York City public school system, where he
holds licenses in both elementary and early childhood education, and in
the music business, where he worked for Elektra Records and CBS
Records, among other companies.
His novels have been translated into over twenty languages;
his books are best-sellers worldwide. In 2004, Mr. Lustbader was chosen by the estate of the late Robert Ludlum to continue the Jason Bourne novels. The first, The Bourne Legacy,
was published in 2005. It garnered rave reviews and was an instant
international bestseller. He is currently at work on the second Bourne
novel, to be published in 2007. He is also the author of two successful
and highly regarded series of fantasy novels, The Sunset Warrior Cycle and The Pearl Saga.
He is the author of more than twenty-five
best-selling novels, including The Ninja, in which he introduced Nicholas Linnear. The Ninja was sold to 20th CenturyFox, to be made into a major motion picture.
Besides "The Other Side of the Mirror" in THRILLER, he has written a
number of short stories, screenplays and novellas. Three of the short
stories appeared in 1999: "Hush," in Off The Beaten Path: Stories of Place for Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, "Slow Burn," in Murder And Obsession
for Delacourt Press, and "An Exultation of Termagants" in the
millennial supernatural mega-collection 999 for Avon Books. A short
novel, Art Kills, was published by Carroll & Graf in December, 2001.
2006's The Testament has received advance rave reviews from
Nelson DeMille, Steve Berry and Joseph Finder, among others.
In his spare time, Mr. Lustbader serves on the Board of
Trustees, the Executive Committee, and is Chair of the Strategic
Planning Committee of the City & Country School in Greenwich
Village. He also tends his prized collection of Japanese maples and
beech trees (which have been written up in The New York Times and Martha Stewart's Living). He is a Second-Level Reiki master. He and his wife Victoria have been residents of the South Fork of Long Island for more than fifteen years.
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