Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in 1979, the novel by Trevanian (the pseudonym of Rodney William Whitaker) details the struggle between the “Mother ...

Thanks to the diversity and ubiquity of the creative impulse, and also being easy to please, I've praised countless artists. But I've only written one fan letter. It was the winter of 1983. I was in ...

Trevanian's singular moniker is puzzling. Among female performers (Madonna, Cher, et al.), going by a single name is a linguistic trick tantamount to putting the limelight on one's persona, and it ...

But then anything might be perceived as insipid after what Trevanian endured in his early life. His new novel has a title that evokes the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and others of that carefree ilk. But this ...

The thriller writer Trevanian, in poor health with emphysema, has a few secrets of his own. Although it has long been speculated in publishing circles, and reported in numerous publications including ...

Rodney William Whitaker’s day job was teaching drama and film as chairman of the Department of Radio, TV and Film at the University of Texas, Austin, but like the characters of his books, that ...

Trevanian, an author who has chosen throughout his life to keep his identity secret, is perhaps best known for his novel "The Eiger Sanction" (made into a 1975 Clint Eastwood movie), which I came to ...

Following the 1979 publication of "Shibumi," publishers and readers alike hoped that its author, Trevanian (the pen name of Rodney Whitaker), would write a sequel. In Nicholai Hel, the book's hero, ...

LONDON — Novelist Rodney Whitaker, who wrote popular thrillers under the pen name Trevanian, has died, his literary agent said Tuesday. He was 74. Whitaker died Dec. 14 in western England of chronic ...

EXCLUSIVE: Even as he is about to start production on the fourth John Wick pic, Chad Stahelski continues to stay busy building up his development slate. Sources say he has come on to produce an ...