Steven Pressfield

Early life

Education

Career

Works

Fiction

• The Legend of Bagger Vance, about a young man coming to terms with his spiritual demons through the medium of golf
• Gates of Fire, about the Battle of Thermopylae,
• Tides of War, a Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War,
• Last of the Amazons, in which Theseus, the legendary King of Athens, sets sail to the north coast of the Black Sea inhabited by a race of female warriors,
• The Virtues of War, about Alexander the Great,
• The Afghan Campaign, about Alexander the Great's conquests in Afghanistan,
• Killing Rommel, a fictionalized account of a patrol of the British Long Range Desert Group during the North African Campaign of World War II,
• The Profession,. Pressfield's first book set in the future, where military force is for hire everywhere. Oil companies, multinational corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches.

  Non-Fiction

• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, a motivational book that investigates the psychology of creating art and how "writer's block" can be cured.
• Do The Work,
• The Warrior Ethos,
• Turning Pro,
• ',
• ',
• An American Jew: A Writer Confronts His Own Exile and Identity,
• Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is and What You Can Do About It,
• The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning,

  Filmography

Additional sources

• Pressfield, Steven.. War of Art. New York/Los Angeles: Black Irish Books.
• Pressfield, Steven.. Turning Pro. New York/Los Angeles: Black Irish Books.