Steven Pressfield
Author of historical fiction and nonfiction
Steven Pressfield is a US writer of historical novels, nonfiction and screenplays. He wrote The War of Art, a book about overcoming self-sabotage in creative work.
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Born 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
About Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield was born in 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and graduated from Duke University in 1965. He became a US Marine in 1966. Before writing full time he worked as an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, truck driver and bartender, among other jobs. His novel The Legend of Bagger Vance appeared in 1995 and was made into a Hollywood film in 2000. His Spartan novel Gates of Fire is on the reading list at West Point. In The War of Art, published in 2002, he calls creative self-sabotage "Resistance" and describes turning pro as the way to fight it. Turning Pro, Do the Work and Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t are also among his books. He lives and writes in California.