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Dancing Naked in the Minefield: Update on David Fisher
When I first read the War Magician ten years ago, I was keen to make contact with author David Fisher. I wrote to his American publishers, but they never responded. I am hoping that this website will draw him into some kind of response. After all, he has privileged access to Jasper's photo albums /notes and probably other material as well. I am sure he is capable of a spirited defence. I would be more than happy to discuss any issue with him and I would be prepared to add corrections to this website if contrary evidence was forthcoming. On the Net, I found a site called 'The Literary Group International' that publicises various authors: "From fiction to non-fiction, current events, history, humor, sports and beyond, The Literary Group International boasts some of the finest authors writing today. Critical raves and best seller lists attest to their quality and popularity. As the author of more than 70 books, many in multiple translations and including 26 best sellers, David Fisher has been writing for more than three decades on subjects ranging from Mafia hitmen to Nobel Prize-winning biochemists. He is the only writer ever to have a work of non-fiction, a novel and a reference book offered simultaneously by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Fisher began his long bestseller career with Killer, the first confessional written by a Mafia hitman; collaborating on The Most Wanted Man in America with John William Clouser after he surrendered on national television; co-authoring The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two with Ron Luciano; Tommy Lasorda’s autobiography The Artful Dodger; and creating and editing, What's What, A Visual Dictionary of the World. What’s What went on to sell over 1 million copies in nine bilingual editions. More recently, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Fisher’s collaboration with Nobel Prize-winner Kary Mullis, was a New York Times Notable currently in its 10th printing, and It’s Only a Game, his collaboration with Terry Bradshaw, hit the New York Times bestseller list. Fisher’s awards include a 1990 Grammy for the audio version of the bestselling Gracie: A Love Story written with George Burns. He received a Grammy nomination for The Naked Truth written with Leslie Neilsen. Fisher’s novella, Conversations With My Cat, was honored with France's 'Prix Litterature de 1,000,000 Amis,' an annual award for the best book about animals. The Pack was released as a Warner Brothers feature film, and The War Magician was recently optioned by Tom Cruise. Patient Number One was also optioned for a feature film. Fisher collaborated on three distinctively different bestsellers in 2003: Keep It Simple (Terry Bradshaw); A Lawyer’s Life (Johnnie Cochran); and Producer (David Wolper). He is currently working with Bill Bonanno and Joe Pistone on the upcoming novel, The Good Guys. "
I note with interest that Fisher juggles non-fiction, fiction and reference. Maybe in the rush to print he gets his genres muddled? I wonder if 'Killer' , dubbed as "the first confessional written by a Mafia hitman", belongs to the genre of crime fiction rather than crime fact ? Can anyone enlighten me on this book? Interesting, too, that Ficher helped write the Johnnie Cochran biography, A Lawyer's Life. Cochran was famous for getting OJ Simpson off the hook. David Fisher and Johnny Cochran - the dream team, the high priests of prevarication?
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