Rip Gerber

Robert “Rip” Benthall Gerber Jr. (born December 27, 1962), best known as Rip Gerber, is an American author, business executive and entrepreneur, best known for his work in the science fiction and thriller genres. His literary works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology.[1][2] Published by Random House under the Heyne imprint, his books are sold almost exclusively as German language techno-thrillers in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.

Rip Gerber
BornRobert Benthall Gerber Jr.
(1962-12-27) December 27, 1962
Washington, D.C.
OccupationAuthor, President and CEO of Locaid, Board of Directors for Aratana Therapeutics
LanguageEnglish, & German
NationalityUnited States
EducationM.B.A. and B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Alma materHarvard Business School
University of Virginia
GenreThrillers, and Technology
Website
www.ripgerber.com

Early life and education

Gerber born in Washington, DC, to Robert Benthall Gerber, a plumber, and Carolyn Wyser Gerber, a State Department employee, on December 27, 1962. He was raised in Falls Church, Virginia and had three siblings.

At age ten he started a business designing and selling greeting cards, raising enough money and winning a scholarship to attend the University of Virginia beginning in 1981. In college he studied Biophysics and Chemical Engineering, and supported himself by designing campus posters, T-shirts, and greeting cards, working as a staff political cartoonist for the Cavalier Daily and University Journal, and working summer jobs at the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He also served on the University of Virginia’s Honor Council and as an officer for the Virginia chapter of Delta Upsilon fraternity. During his undergraduate study, an engineering professor criticized his excessive doodling and unnecessary language in his lab notes, promptly Gerber to enroll in a fiction writing class in his final year, his only A+ grade of his entire college career. For his writing class he produced his first short story, A Fishing Day Correspondence, later published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, in 1985. Gerber did not write another work of fiction again until twenty years later.

Gerber applied for and was rejected by Harvard Business School in 1987. Upon his second attempt at admission he did not complete the required personal essays in the application forms but instead constructed a large painted wooden puzzle of a pictogram detailing his life and accomplishments and shipped it to Harvard Admissions in a Zip-Loc bag. Gerber was accepted in Harvard University’s School of Business and graduated in 1992.[3] He was a political cartoonist and journalist with the HARBUS school paper and co-wrote the Harvard show, Vulgarians at the Gate, with Don Sull and Jay O’Connor.

Writing

Gerber co-authored "Pilots to Profits: Getting in Sync with the Mobile Mandate", published in 2005 by Hudson House.[4]

"The Journeyman" was Gerber's first novel, published by iUniverse in 2007.[5] Gerber self-published his first techno-thriller "Pharma" in 2007. Random House later published it via imprint Heyne Verlag, briefly reached best-seller status in Germany in mid-2007.[6]

In 2010 Gerber wrote the sequel Killer Virus, published only in German under the Heyne imprint.[7] Gerber wrote his anthology, "First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors"[8] which was published internationally by Forge, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers.[9] The second short story, "Last Supper", was selected to be included in an anthology from new authors by the New York Times.[10][11]

References
  1. https://www.amazon.com/Rip-Gerber/e/B003L7DC4A
  2. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/rip-gerber-2
  3. "Class of 1992 20th Reunion". Archived from the original on 2013-04-11.
  4. Amazon's book page. ISBN 1587768356.
  5. Google Book page.
  6. Beusker, Gabriele. "Pharma Thriller Launch Press Release". Heyne. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  7. Amazon.de Book Page. ASIN 3453434765.
  8. "First Thrills, Introduced and edited by Lee Child with an Afterword by Steve Berry, Macmillan".
  9. "Forge's Website".
  10. Berry, Steve. "Review of First Thrills: High Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors". Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  11. Hartlaub, Joe. "Review of First Thrills: High Octane Stories From the Hottest Thriller Authors". Booklist. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
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