When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
-- Clive Cussler
   
Clive Cussler   Name:
Clive Cussler
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 15, 1931
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