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grew up on the New England coast, where he worked as a long shore man and boat builder. For many years he wrote mysteries and detective novels. The Private Eye Writers of America nominated two of his T.D.Stash series as best detective novel and then selected Philbrick's 'Brothers & Sinners' as Best Novel in 1993. And 'Nine Levels Down'. Inspired by the life of a boy who lived a few blocks away, he wrote 'Freak The Mighty', the award-winning young-adult novel, which has been changed and written into different languages and is now read in schools throughout the world. 'Freak The Mighty', became a movie in 1998. Rodman Philbrick is a sceen writer as well as a novelist, he has written both children and adult books. =====