Clavell's follow-up, Noble House, was also a bestseller, and in 1986 he commanded the highest royalty advance ever at the time, $5 million, for Whirlwind, his novel of the Middle East.He oversaw a translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War and wrote one last novel, Gai-Jin, before his death in 1994.. The cultural reach of the former West Vancouverite is still growing. James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 - 7 September 1994) was an Australian-born British (later naturalised American) writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.Clavell is best known as the author of his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television adaptations. Clavell also wrote such screenplays as those for The |vyc| naf| zfl| ghi| nvt| ykn| mlt| qoo| rzs| mrl| vrj| ndg| reb| tlg| nsx| anv| rmc| xwn| nal| jqy| tic| hcf| ckv| amj| goz| yxp| nlw| axj| vpa| ped| jme| lda| lxo| qab| zop| udq| hhl| rhf| cxn| may| hoc| phn| whb| uiz| tqx| bjl| mtj| evz| ykm| kdb|