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Torri Jan Newman (born 1983 or 1984), [1] better known as T. J. Newman, is an American author and former flight attendant. Early life. Newman grew up in Mesa, ...
Newman worked as a flight attendant for 10 years. Drowning is her second novel, following her debut New York Times bestseller Falling.She was inspired to "go bigger" for her second novel, basing the idea around a red-eye flight from Hawaii to LAX she used to work and imagining being isolated miles and hours in every direction from safety.
While working as a flight attendant, Newman came up with the novel's plot during a flight from Los Angeles to New York. [2] [3] Newman wrote down scenes for the novel on cocktail napkins and catering bills, typing them into a computer during layovers. [3] The novel was rejected by 41 agents before being accepted by Shane Salerno. [4]
T.J. Newman made a huge deal to adapt her 2021 debut, 'Falling.' Her new follow-up, 'Drowning,' confirms her skill at crafting gripping disaster procedurals.
James Logan (trustee) (1864–1931), American school official; James Logan (writer) (1797–1872), Scottish author on Gaelic culture; James C. Logan (1914–1997), Grand Prytanis of Tau Kappa Epsilon from 1953 to 1957; James Harvey Logan (1841–1928), American horticulturist; James Richardson Logan (1819–1869), British lawyer and amateur ...
James Logan (20 October 1674 – 31 October 1751) was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices. Logan was born in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh, Ireland to Ulster Scots Quakers.
Newman, who went on to become a Hollywood icon who starred in The Hustler (1961), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, (1969) and The Colour of Money (1986), for which he won an Academy Award, says ...
Logan was born in Aberdeen, where his father was a merchant; he was educated at Aberdeen grammar school and Marischal College. A sports injury made him give up a potential career as a lawyer. [2] In London with the support of Lord Aberdeen, Logan studied at the Royal Academy. He became a journalist, and then a clerk in an architect's office.