Pittacus
Americannoun
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By the late 2010s, several big- and small-screen adaptions of hugely popular YA fantasy and science fiction series by Roth, Clare, Rick Yancey, and Pittacus Lore himself had bombed at the box office.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2019
The most successful of these products, 2011’s I Am Number Four, was written by Frey and Jobie Hughes under the pseudonym Pittacus Lore and was adapted by DreamWorks in 2011.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2019
Pittacus Lore has expressed his conception of the the story as an action/sci-fi book.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2012
Frey doesn't publicly admit to penning the first book in the series; it's probably wise to let Pittacus take the rap for the movie as well.
From Time • Feb. 17, 2011
Golden Rule by Pittacus, 650 B. C. "Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him."
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
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