Edward Cline

For the screenwriter, actor and director, see Edward F. Cline.

Edward Cline (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and essayist.

He is best known for his Sparrowhawk series of novels, set in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. This historical series is being used in college, high school and middle school literature courses around the U.S., and has a significant foreign following as well, particularly in the United Kingdom.

His other fiction includes one suspense series (featuring American entrepreneur Merritt Fury), one contemporary detective series (featuring Chess Hanrahan, who solves paradoxical murders), and one period detective series (featuring Cyrus Skeen in Nineteen Twenties San Francisco).

Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on aesthetics, his defense of capitalism and of free speech, and his criticism of contemporary political trends, and of Islam (and religion in general). Cline written on freedom of speech and censorship issues for The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science and The Journal of Information Ethics. He has written numerous feature and cover stories, as well as book reviews, for Marine Corps League Magazine, The Colonial Williamsburg Journal, The Wall Street Journal, and The Intellectual Activist. His article on English political philosopher John Locke was carried in two editions of Western Civilization (McGraw-Hill). He has been a guest commentator for Rule of Reason at the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism since 2006. His numerous columns have also appeared on Capitalism Magazine, Family Security Matters, and other blog sites.

As a writer, his strongest influence has been novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand.

On June 15, 2016, Cline's name was on a list of over 8,000 names that was characterized as an ISIS Kill List. Cline's landlord, Alison Otey, promptly evicted him. In an interview with Vocativ Cline said, “The situation is unprecedented in my lifetime experience. I’ve never before been evicted or thrown under the bus for what I think and write.”.

Bibliography

• First Prize, Mysterious Press/Warner Book, 1988, ISBN 0-89296-291-7
• Whisper the Guns, Atlantean Press, 1992, ISBN 0-9626854-2-9
• Whisper the Guns, Patrick Henry Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1481220880
• Sparrowhawk One: Jack Frake, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1-931561-00-1
• Sparrowhawk Two: Hugh Kenrick MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2002 ISBN 1-931561-20-6
• Sparrowhawk Three: Caxton, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-931561-53-2
• Sparrowhawk Four: Empire, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-931561-87-7
• Sparrowhawk Five: Revolution, MacAdam/Cage, 2005, ISBN 1-59692-154-4
• Sparrowhawk Six: War, MacAdam/Cage, 16 January 2007, ISBN 1-59692-198-6
• Sparrowhawk Companion, MacAdam/Cage, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59692-261-7 (in collaboration with Jena Trammell, editor)
• Sparrowhawk: Book One, Jack Frake, Patrick Henry Press, July 2013, ISBN 978-1491217498
• Sparrowhawk: Book Two, Hugh Kenrick, Patrick Henry Press, August 2013,ISBN 978-1492156895
• Sparrowhawk: Book Three, Caxton, Patrick Henry Press, August 2013, ISBN 978-1492163060
• Sparrowhawk: Book Four, Empire, Patrick Henry Press, August 2013, ISBN 978-1492180005
• Sparrowhawk: Book Five, Revolution, Patrick Henry Press, August 2013, ISBN 978-1492183358
• Sparrowhawk: Book Six, War, Patrick Henry Press, August 2013, ISBN 978-1492185918
• The New Sparrowhawk Companion, Patrick Henry Press, December 2013, ISBN 978-1494406066
• Presence of Mind, Perfect Crime Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9825157-0-9
• Honors Due, Perfect Crime Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-935797-14-2
• First Prize, Perfect Crime Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9825157-7-8
• With Distinction, Perfect Crime Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-935797-21-0
• Run From Judgment, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-148-1248709
• We Three Kings, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481219075
• China Basin, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481182201
• The Head of Athena, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481202466
• The Daedâlus Conspiracy, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481208772
• The Chameleon, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481212625
• A Crimson Overture, Patrick Henry Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1492251972
• The Black Stone, Patrick Henry Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1494974626
• Running Out My Guns, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481810067
• Broadsides in the War of Ideas, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481800792
• Corsairs and Freebooters, Patrick Henry Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1481804509
• Boarding Parties & Grappling Hooks, Patrick Henry Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1482087833
• Letters of Marque, Patrick Henry Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1493749034
• From The Crow's Nest, Patrick Henry Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1499690620
• The Pickwick Affair, Patrick Henry Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1500217167
• Islam's Reign of Terror, Patrick Henry Press/Voltaire Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1500920777
• Rational Scrutiny: Paradoxes and Contradictions in Detective Fiction, Patrick Henry Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1500848903
• Silver Screens, Patrick Henry Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1508772019
• The Circles of Odin, Patrick Henry Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1511441599
• Sleight of Hand, Patrick Henry Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1511786881
• Stolen Words, Patrick Henry Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1514248706
• An August Interlude, Patrick Henry Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1516876051
• Cogitations: Recent Reflections on the State of Things, Patrick Henry Press, 2015 ISBN 978-1517267377
• Wintery Discontent, Patrick Henry Press, 2015 ISBN 978-1517491505
• Manhattan Blues, Patrick Henry Press, 2016 ISBN 978-1523381814
• The Janus Affair, Patrick Henry Press, 2016 ISBN 978-1530042562
• First Things, Patrick Henry Press, 2016 ISBN 978-1530496273
• Civic Affairs, Patrick Henry Press, 2016 ISBN 978-1530849468
• Exegesis, Patrick Henry Press, 2016 ISBN 978-1533003478

External links

• Edward Cline's website
• Edward Cline's articles at Capitalism Magazine
• "Interview with novelist, Ed Cline, author of Sparrowhawk Series", Egoist, 2008 11 21