Ian caldwell biography
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Ian Caldwell Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason discuss The Rule of Four, their co-written debut intellectual suspense novel that's been described as 'Dan Brown by way of Donna Tartt and Umberto Eco'.
The novel centers on a real Renaissance text, The HypnerotomachiaPoliphili; a book that is fairly obscure. Explain how you discovered this book and why you choose to develop your story around it.
We owe it to a Princeton seminar entitled "Renaissance Art, Science, and Magic." Ian&#;s final paper for the seminar dealt with a text entitled Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the most beautiful and valuable books of early Western printing, and one that has divided scholars for years over its meaning and the identity of its author. By the time the research paper was finished, we were already planning to spend the summer writing an intellectual suspense novel together. The mystery of the Hypnerotomachia supplied a perfect starting point, and before long we had hatched a "solution" to the book&#;s mystery that became the centerpiece of the plot.
You seamlessly blend fact and fiction throughout the novel. For example, Savonarola is a real historical figure, about whom much is known, but what of Francesco Colonna
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Ian Caldwell
American novelist
Ian Mackinnon Caldwell (born March 18, ) is an American novelist known for co-authoring the novel The Rule of Four. His second book, The Fifth Gospel, was published in
Early life and education
[edit]Caldwell was born on March 18, , in Fairfax County, Virginia, where he later met his future writing collaborator, Dustin Thomason. Both graduated from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Caldwell graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. in history from Princeton University in after completing an page-long senior thesis, titled The French Popular Front and the Debate over Intervention in the Spanish Civil War, under the supervision of Thomas J. Dandelet.[1]
Career
[edit]After college, while working with Thomason on their first novel, Caldwell worked at MicroStrategy in Tyson Corner and taught test preparation for Kaplan, Inc. in Blacksburg. Caldwell is married to his wife, Meredith, who earned her DVM at Virginia Tech. The couple lived in Newport News, Virginia, before moving to Vienna, Virginia. The couple had three children originally, Ethan, Sami, and Luke, with a fourth, Jude, being adopted in
Upon graduating from their respective colleges, Caldwell began working with Thomason on the novel T
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