Jack Ryan (character) Jack Ryan (character) John Patrick "Jack" Ryan, Sr. is a fictional character created by author Tom Clancy and featured in his Ryanverse novels, which have consistently topped the New York Times best seller list over 30 years. Since Clancy’s death in 2013, four other authors have continued the Ryan franchise and its other connecting series with the approval of the Clancy family estate: Mark Greaney, Grant Blackwood, Mike Maden, and Marc Cameron. The son of a Baltimore police detective and a nurse, Jack Ryan is a former U.S. Marine and stockbroker who became a history teacher at Boston College in
John Haskell (author) "McSweeney's"). He has taught writing and literature at Columbia University, Cal Arts, and the Leipzig University. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and lives in Brooklyn. John Haskell (author) John Haskell (born February 10, 1958) is the author of a short-story collection, "I Am Not Jackson Pollock" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and the novels "American Purgatorio" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) and "Out of My Skin" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). He's also the author of "The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts" (Graywolf Press, 2017). His stories and essays