Annandale's Marshall Terrill Finds Big Screen, Writing Success

Writing from his parent’s Annandale basement in the early 1990s, author Marshall Terrill launched a writing career that continues today and now includes movie options.

Terrill was featured in a Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen article today.

Although Terrill’s family moved around quite a bit when he was growing up, he attended south of Kingstowne, and he graduated from in Burke in the late 1970s.

The book he wrote from that basement was a 400-plus-page tome on Steve McQueen, whom he idolized growing up. The book, published in 1993, was called “Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel”.

“Steve McQueen was it,” Terrill told the Citizen. “He was definitely my guy growing up, and I got it from my dad. He was his favorite star.”

Terrill is now working at Arizona State University, and has written several more books in his free time. Those books include “Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business”  and “Palm Springs à la Carte”.

A movie based on Terrill’s work on McQueen is in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Terrill’s blog is at http://marshallterrillbookbuzz.blogspot.com/.