Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of
The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series--
The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and
The Bourne Ultimatum--among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms
Jonathan Ryder and
Michael Shepherd.
Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including
The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and
The Bourne Ultimatum. A non-Ludlum book supposedly inspired by his unused notes,
Covert One: The Hades Factor, has also been made into a mini-series. The
Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful (
The Bourne Ultimatum won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material.
