Occupation Novelist Period 2010- | Nationality American Genre Thriller | |
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Born Boyd Morrison
February 17, 1967 (age 50) ( 1967-02-17 ) Books Emperor's Revenge, The Loch Ness Legacy, The Tsunami Countdown, The Noah's Ark Quest, The Midas Code Similar Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, Craig Dirgo, James Rollins | ||
Boyd Morrison (born February 17, 1967) is an American thriller novelist, actor and former Jeopardy! champion. He has co-authored two books with The New York Times fiction best-seller Clive Cussler.
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Education
Boyd Morrison has earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University and a PhD from Virginia Tech in industrial engineering.
Career
After his graduation from Rice University, Morrison joined Lockheed working on the Space Station Freedom project at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. He left NASA to get his PhD from Virginia Tech. Morrison moved to Seattle and went to work for Microsoft in the Xbox games group. Among his credits are PC and Xbox games, including Project Gotham, Racing 2, Flight Simulator 2004, and Forza Motorsport. Morrison left Microsoft in 2005 to write full-time.
Morrison's first book The Noah's Ark Quest (The Ark) was self published and later published by Simon and Schuster. The Ark (The Noah’s Ark Quest) has been translated into 22 languages, was selected for IndieBound's Indie Next list in May 2010, and became a top 15 bestseller in the UK
