The Christmas Train, Baldacci's eighth novel, was adapted in 2017 by Hallmark Channel as a Hallmark Hall of Fame feature presentation. It was adapted as a film, Absolute Power (1997), starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman.īaldacci wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his novel Wish You Well the movie was shot on location in southwest Virginia with Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn, Josh Lucas, and Mackenzie Foy in the lead roles.īaldacci was a consulting producer on King & Maxwell, a TNT television series based on his characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell. Works īaldacci's first novel, Absolute Power, tells the story of a fictional American president and his Secret Service agents who are willing to commit murder in order to cover up the accidental death of a woman with whom the President was having an affair. In 2019, he donated $1 million to the home. īaldacci served for 10 years on the board of trustees of the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Baldacci became involved with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society after his sister, author Sharon Baldacci, was diagnosed with MS. To date, Baldacci has published 46 best-selling novels for adults as well as seven novels for younger readers.īaldacci resides in Fairfax County, Virginia, with his family.īaldacci and his wife, Michelle, are the co-founders of the Wish You Well Foundation, which works to combat illiteracy in the United States by funding adult literacy and education programs. Published in 1996, it was an international best seller. While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write Absolute Power. He wrote for more than two decades, penning short stories and later screenplays without much success. Baldacci began writing stories as a child, when his mother gave him a notebook in which to record them.

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