Eric Garcia (born 1972) is the author of several humorous novels including Matchstick Men which was made into a movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Nicolas Cage, and the Anonymous Rex series which is being used as the basis for a new TV show on the SciFi Channel.
Garcia attended Cornell University to study English and film, transferring to the University of Southern California during his junior year. His first novel, Anonymous Rex was pub...
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Eric Garcia (born 1972) is the author of several humorous novels including Matchstick Men which was made into a movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Nicolas Cage, and the Anonymous Rex series which is being used as the basis for a new TV show on the SciFi Channel.
Garcia attended Cornell University to study English and film, transferring to the University of Southern California during his junior year. His first novel, Anonymous Rex was published in 1999.
The second novel in the Rex series, Casual Rex, was published in 2001, and was a prequel to Anonymous Rex, a fact which was not on the book flap. The inclusion of characters in Casual Rex who were dead in Anonymous Rex confused many fans, who assumed that the book was a sequel.
In 2002, Random House published Matchstick Men, a novel completely different from Garcia's prior work. Warner Brothers had already purchased the film rights and signed Ridley Scott as the director, with Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman as the...
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