He is the author of a number of short stories, screenplays and novellas. Lustbader is also the author of two successful and highly regarded major fantasy series, The Pearl, published by Tor Books in the US and HarperCollins/Voyager in the UK and The Sunset Warrior Cycle. Writing for Cash Box Magazine, he also predicted the successes of such bands as Santana, Roxy Music, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, David Bowie, and The Who, among others. As a consequence, he, Elton and Elton’s lyricist Bernie Taupin became friends. He was the first writer in the US to write about Elton John and to predict his success. Lustbader, is fond of saying, “I learned all the important lessons that would stay with me for life.”īefore 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. He is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology, but his real education came much earlier at The City & Country School where, as Mr.

He lived downstairs from the young Lauren Bacall and built orange-crate racers in Washington Square Park with Keith and David Carradine. Lustbader was born and raised in Greenwich Village, where he developed an interest in art as well as in writing.

His novels have been translated into over twenty languages his books are bestsellers worldwide and are so popular whole sections of bookstores from Bangkok to Dublin are devoted to them. Since then, he has published more than twenty five best-selling novels, including The Ninja, in which he introduced Nicholas Linnear, one of modern fiction’s most beloved and enduring heroes, continuing his exploits in five subsequent best-sellers. Eric Van Lustbader’s first novel, The Sunset Warrior, was published in 1975.

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