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About the AuthorSteven Pressfield is the author of four historical novels set in ancient Greece—Gates of Fire (under option by Universal Studios), Tides of War, Last of the Amazons (optioned by Twentieth-Century Fox) and The Virtues of War—as well as The War of Art, a non-fiction work about the craft of writing, and The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was made into a movie directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon, Will Smith, and Charlize Theron. Gates of Fire has been included in the curriculum at West Point and Annapolis and is on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. In September 2003, the city of Sparta in Greece made Mr. Pressfield an honorary citizen.
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