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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
  Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
DUSTIN THOMASON attended Harvard University, where he studied anthropology and medicine.
Thomason also received his MD and MBA from Columbia University in 2003.
In this interview Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason talk about their debut novel THE RULE OF FOUR, a literary thriller that many have compared to the international bestseller THE DA VINCI CODE.
www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-caldwell-thomason.asp   (936 words)

  
  Dustin Thomason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dustin Thomason is a writer who studied anthropology and medicine at Harvard University.
Thomason and Caldwell were members of the class of 1994 at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
He also co-created and is executive producer on the upcoming 2006 ABC Drama "The Evidence." Thomason currently lives and works in Los Angeles, because rain makes him sad.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dustin_Thomason   (136 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dustin Thomason
The Rule of Four is a novel written by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, and published in 2004.
Childhood friends Ian Caldwell, a Princeton graduate, and Dustin Thomason, a Harvard graduate, teamed up after college to write THE RULE OF FOUR, a novel based on the mystery of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has vexed scholars throughout history.
After all, Caldwell and Thomason have done most of the heavy deciphering — all that's left is to solve the final riddle, head for Rome and start digging.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dustin-Thomason   (576 words)

  
 Dustin Thomason Information
Dustin Thomason is a writer who studied anthropology and medicine at Harvard University.
Thomason and Caldwell were members of the class of 1994 at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Thomason received his MD and his MBA from Columbia University.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Dustin_Thomason   (203 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason - Books: Meet the Writers
Friends and writing partners since childhood, Ian Calwell and Dustin Thomason are now enjoying a profitable partnership.
Thomason adds: "If you believe in the project you’re working on, continue revising until you’re blue in the face.
Also in our interview, Thomason dubs Richard Russo's Empire Falls "the funniest novel I’ve ever read." He continues, "Russo’s ability to entertain even as he creates powerful characters with a deep connection to place is unparalleled." Read the interview to find out what other books made Thomason's list, among them:
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=1255873   (412 words)

  
 The New York Times > Books > Friends Invent Best Seller From Renaissance Tale
Ian Caldwell, left, and Dustin Thomason with "The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili," the book their novel is about.
But now Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, both 28 and best friends since the third grade, have written "The Rule of Four," a novel in which they have invented a solution to both mysteries.
Thomason said they had written the book to preserve their friendship after graduating from college.
www.nytimes.com /2004/05/26/books/26BOOK.html?ex=1400904000&en=8055189383a335a9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND   (690 words)

  
 For Two Young Authors, a Happy Beginning (washingtonpost.com)
Thomason said he took a writing course from Jamaica Kincaid at Harvard.
Initially Thomason, 76, was concerned that the book would be too esoteric for most people because it is filled with literary arcana.
A couple of Thomason family friends, Stanley Horowitz and his wife, Carole Kitti, stopped to get some books signed and to snap a photograph.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A62099-2004May27_3.html   (280 words)

  
 ICM - International Creative Management, Inc.- Lectures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's first novel, "The Rule of Four," was published in 2004 to wide critical acclaim, and is the only debut novel ever to land authors on the front page of "The Washington Post" and the front page of "The New York Times" in the same week.
Ian and Dustin have been best friends and co-writers since they were eight years old.
Dustin won the Hoopes Prize at Harvard College the same year, before earning his M.D. and M.B.A. from Columbia University.
www.icmtalent.com /lect/profiles/50132.html   (175 words)

  
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Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason couldn’t be more different.
Thomason’s animated expression and ebullient voice dance from conversation to conversation, weaving through a variety of topics and tones.
In the play, Thomason would slowly move towards Caldwell and then sprint in the opposite direction, while Caldwell tried to throw the ball in the path of his run.
www.fcnp.com /413/pfauthors.htm   (1163 words)

  
 'Evidence' studied by ABC, JWP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The network is close to picking up a procedural crime drama from "The Rule of Four" co-writer Dustin Thomason and writer-producer Sam Baum to be produced by John Wells Prods.
Thomason and Baum are penning the pilot script and are executive producing.
Thomason and Ian Caldwell rose to fame this year when their debut novel, "The Rule of Four," became an instant best seller.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/television/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000642436   (197 words)

  
 The New York Times > Books > Books of The Times | 'The Rule of Four': Deciphering a Mysterious Text and Puzzles ...
Thomason have come up with an original idea of what may have prompted the creation of this dream allegory, and a theory of what it all means.
Thomason, who would make an attention-getting duo even if they hadn't been best friends since they were 8, begin the book by establishing its milieu.
Caldwell and Thomason to devote themselves to it so obsessively, consider one of the Hypnerotomachia's explicit details.
www.nytimes.com /2004/05/06/books/06MASL.html?ex=1399176000&en=24e8fddf0e93c47d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND   (1059 words)

  
 First-time authors strike publishing gold - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
Authors of new thriller "The Rule of Four," Dustin Thomason, left, and Ian Caldwell, pose in a northwest Washington bookstore.
A mix of historical and present-day fact and fiction, the book revolves around two Princeton seniors and their attempts to solve the riddle of the “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,” a puzzling, fantastical love story of uncertain authorship, published in Venice in 1499 and written in multiple languages.
Caldwell and Thomason, meanwhile, are working on a second novel that also combines modern-day suspense with a historical puzzle.
msnbc.msn.com /id/5129003   (688 words)

  
 THE RULE OF FOUR - MEET THE AUTHORS
Watch the video of authors Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason discussing THE RULE OF FOUR.
The Renaissance text is sometimes a mirror, and sometimes a foil, for the decisions and changes that accompany the approach of adult life.
Ian, you went to Princeton and Dustin you went to Harvard.
www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/theruleoffour/meet.html   (785 words)

  
 Books at Random House of Canada | The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
"Caldwell and Thomason have created a stunning first novel; a perfect blend of suspense and a sensitive coming of age story.
The intense college friendships and their inevitable decline are woven into the thriller's plot.
www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0440241359   (665 words)

  
 Simon & Schuster: Dustin Thomason
Dustin Thomason won the Hoopes Prize at Harvard University.
THE RULE OF FOUR Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason Read by Josh Hamilton It's Easter at Princeton and two students, Tom Sullivan and...
A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius.
www.simonsays.com /content/destination.cfm?tab=25&pid=361223   (87 words)

  
 Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason Webcast (Library of Congress)
Speaker Biography: Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason both grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and have been best friends since they were 8.
Together they have crafted a seamless work of fiction, "The Rule of Four," which centers on a real Renaissance text in which a hidden code is buried.
Thomason won the Hoopes Prize for undergraduate writing and graduated from Harvard in 1998.
www.loc.gov /today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3587   (263 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of the Ivy League, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, The Rule of Four takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history — as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense.
Readers might be tempted to buy their own copy of the Hypnerotomachia and have a go at the puzzle.
If Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be The Rule of Four.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0385337116-5   (1396 words)

  
 BookPage Fiction Review: The Rule of Four
What he and Paul discover is a revelation so incredible some would murder to possess it.
Readers who enjoy cipher-powered story lines will delight in Caldwell and Thomason's acrostics, anagrams, riddles and polyalphabetic cryptography.
But this novel is ultimately powered by the deep relationships between the handful of protagonists, and the things they will do to sustain their friendship.
www.bookpage.com /0405bp/fiction/rule_of_four.html   (254 words)

  
 Contentlink - The Rule of Four
Dustin Thomason attended Harvard University, where he studied anthropology and medicine.
He won the Hoopes Prize for undergraduate writing, and graduated in 1998.
Thomason also received his M.D. and MBA from Columbia University in 2003.
www.contentlinkinc.com /ContentDetails.htm?ID=0440334950&type=ISBN   (365 words)

  
 Skimming / Quick reviews | www.azstarnet.com ®
Caldwell and Thomason have been friends since they were 8 years old in the Washington, D.C., suburbs.
In 1998, when Caldwell graduated from Princeton and Thomason from Harvard, they decided to write a novel, concocting a plot about a group of undergraduates who decipher the secrets of an enigmatic old book.
But Caldwell and Thomason haven't got the knack of suspense yet.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/preps/22205.php   (1298 words)

  
 JS Online: In Town: Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Renaissance tome "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" hardly seems the kind of book to be at the center of a 21st-century bestseller.
All of which has made each of the slightly shell-shocked young authors abandon his planned career goals for the uncertain life of an author.
"I am not going to practice medicine," admitted Thomason, who received medical and business degrees after his undergraduate work at Harvard.
www.jsonline.com /enter/books/jun04/235781.asp?format=print   (505 words)

  
 Book Review - The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason tries to be many things.
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason try, at times too obviously, to show the growth of these four from boys to men, and this paintball scene is one of boys will be boys.
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason haven't entirely succeeded in this endeavor, probably partly due to the fact that this is their debut novel.
www.reviewsofbooks.com /rule_of_four/review   (1187 words)

  
 The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason - Dreamcatcher - Reverberatii
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
Ian Caldwell si Dustin Thomason sunt doi autori care au scris o carte destul de intriganta, in viziunea mea.
Desi aceasta carte apare asa, un pic in umbra "Codului lui DaVinci", fiind un roman bazat pe istorie, pe revelarea unui secret vechi, desi nu la fel de vechi precum celui a lui Brown, se poate spune ca exista cateva paralele, care ar fi demne de luat in seama cand discutam despre aceasta carte.
mariuss-blog.weblog.ro /2006-11-23/109281/The-Rule-of-Four---Ian-Caldwell,-Dustin-Thomason.html   (367 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Eggheads, take a crack at this mystery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Princeton alums Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason set The Rule of Four at their alma mater.
When Paul's graduate student assistant is shot and falls from the top floor of the history department, it signals that there's more than mere academic advancement at stake.
Caldwell and Thomason skillfully paint the brainiacs' struggle with the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2004-06-02-the-rule-of-four_x.htm   (582 words)

  
 Las Vegas Mercury: Books: The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dusti...
Depending on one's point of view, the book is either an encyclopedic prose rumination or a series of arcane, unsolved codes and conundrums that pose as one.
An icon in the rare book world, it was first translated into English in 1999--coincidentally enough, the year in which Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason set The Rule of Four, a fascinating though somewhat schizophrenic novel about that "last great Renaissance mystery."
The book's backstory could be mistaken for part of the plot itself: Two really smart Ivy League graduates, best friends since elementary school, decide to collaborate on a novel about one of the most obscure texts in Western literature.
www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-May-27-Thu-2004/23939257.html   (634 words)

  
 NJN - New Jersey Public Television and Radio
State of the Arts catches up with Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, authors of the New York Times best-selling intellectual thriller The Rule of Four.
The rookie novelists began writing together when they were undergraduates, Ian at Princeton and Dustin at Harvard (they’ve been friends since they were eight).
Jan Matulka was a Czech-born modernist who was influenced by his contacts with Native Americans during his travels to the Southwestern United States in the first part of the 20th century.
www.njn.net /artsculture/starts/season04-05/2305.html   (617 words)

  
 Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Rule of Four
Reviews: "Caldwell and Thomason have created a stunning first novel; a perfect blend of suspense and a sensitive coming of age story.
If Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Ecco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be The Rule of Four.
Description: An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.
www.bordersstores.com /search/search.jsp?srchType=ISBN&srchTerms=0385337116   (451 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - dustin, DVDs, Videos VHS PAL UK, Film Memorabilia items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason - Book Review - The Beachcomber Newspaper - Destin, Fort Walton ...
Comparisons have been made to the Da Vinci Code, but the only thing the two books have in common are secrets buried in code for hundreds of years.
While Code zipped right along, throwing in historical orts, this book seems to suffer from having two authors, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.
There are parts of the book rich with dialog and action and others delving more deeply into ancient history than I wanted to go.
www.thebeachcomber.org /ruleoffour.htm   (519 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell - Hardcover
The authors, two recent Ivy League grads, keep up a frantic, somewhat exhausting pace, but the most riveting action sequences take place inside the mind, as the hero wrestles with the manuscript.
Caldwell and Thomason's intriguing intellectual suspense novel stars four brainy roommates at Princeton, two of whom have links to a mysterious 15th-century manuscript, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Comparisons to The Da Vinci Code are inevitable, but Caldwell and Thomason's book is the more cerebral-and better written-of the two: think Dan Brown by way of Donna Tartt and Umberto Eco.
search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0385337116   (1248 words)

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