American novelist
Jeff Rovin is an American magazine editor, freelance writer, columnist, and author, who has appeared on "The New York Times" Best Seller list.
Biography.
Jeff Rovin has been editor-in-chief of "Weekly World News", an assistant editor and writer for DC Comics, and an editor for Warren Publishing and Seaboard Periodicals, as well as a science and media columnist in such magazines as "Analog", "Omni", and "Famous Monsters of Filmland".
His "How to Play" video game books of the 1980s and 1990s detailed strategies for dozens of games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy. This series was preceded by his "The Complete Guide to Conquering Video Games" in 1982, and followed by his "Gamemaster" series that lasted until the late 1990s, which began containing a violence rating for the games included in these books. Rovin's publisher at the time, St. Martin's, later decided to continue the "How To Win At", series, but this time written by Hank Schlesinger, to cover Nintendo 64, PlayStation games, and "Pokémon".
Rovin has written encyclopedias about popular culture, including "The Encyclopedia of Superheroes" (Facts On File, 1985), "The Encyclopedia of Super Villains" (Facts On File, 1987) "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals" (Prentice Hall, 1991), and "The Encyclopedia of Monsters" (Checkmark Books, 1990). He has worked on biographical and film books on such performers as Kelsey Grammer, Lana Turner, Adam West, Ellen DeGeneres, Jackie Chan, Charlton Heston, Elvis Presley, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Pryor, Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, and Julio Iglesias, and on the animated series "The Simpsons". Additionally, he has written quiz and joke books.
Rovin's novels are in the fields of thriller, horror, adventure, and mystery, in addition to the military field with books in the "Force Five" and "Tom Clancy's Op-Center" series. His "Tom Clancy's Op-Center: War of Eagles" became a "New York Times" Best Seller.
His later "Unit Omega" books were written under the name pen name Jim Grand. He then began writing further military suspense novels under his own name, such as "Tempest Down", "Dead Rising", and "Rogue Angel".
In October 2016, during the last days of the Donald Trump campaign, Rovin appeared on "Hannity", in Breitbart News and the front cover of "National Enquirer", claiming to have been a "fixer" for Bill and Hillary Clinton, hiding family scandals. His allegations included that Hillary Clinton was "bisexual" and a "secret sex freak" with an "open marriage" and had a romantic relationship with Vince Foster.
Bibliography.
Fiction.
"Tom Clancy's Op-Center".
Series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik
"Unit Omega".
written under the pen name Jim Grand
"The EarthEnd Saga".
Co-written with actress Gillian Anderson
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