Tom Clancy, author, dead at 66

Clancy died Tuesday night after a brief illness at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. "I've been lucky," Mr. Clancy said in a 1992 interview with The Baltimore Sun. While some of Mr. Clancy's classmates went on to spend the late 1960s on campuses rife with anti-war activism, he moved a few miles south to Baltimore's Loyola College, where the ruling Jesuits had little tolerance for demonstrations. His first publisher, Jim Barber, a retired Navy captain and executive director of the Naval Institute, once remembered Mr. Clancy as "a very bright guy who knows clearly what he thinks and doesn't hesitate to let you know what he thinks."

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