Clive Cussler’s Death – Cause and Date

The oceanographer Clive Cussler died at the age of 88. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

An oceanographer and best-selling author, he is particularly known for his Dirk Pitt adventure novels. His other serial works include the Oregon Files and the Isaac Bell Adventures.

He married Barbara Knight in 1955. The couple subsequently had three children: Teri, Dirk, and Dayna.

Quotes

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I’m considered the ‘old daddy of adventure.’

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It’s a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.

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I’d give my left arm for the Merrimack.

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When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

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I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and… look for wrecks. Then, six months later, I might start another book.