Jacques Bain Pearl

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also known as Stephanie Blake, Jake Logan, Jack Pearl, Tricia Stevens, Trisha Stevens

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Background

Jacques Pearl was born on September 12, 1923 in Richmond Hill, New York, United States.

Education

Pearl received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Columbia University.

Career

Jacques Pearl served in the U.S. Army in Africa, Sicily, and Italy during World War II. He began his career as an advertising copywriter in 1947-1950. He was editor of the Gangbusters television show, and editor of Saga, from 1953-60. He was a freelance writer from 1961 on. His first book as Jack Pearl was Blood-and-Guts Patton: The Swashbuckling Life Story of America's Most Daring and Controversial General (1961), the first in a series of some twenty—mostly military—novels and histories. He also wrote half a dozen novelizations of movie scripts as Jack Pearl, and several other novels under various pseudonyms.