1. Marshall Terrill is noted for biographies on Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Billy Graham and Pete Maravich.
17 Facts About Marshall Terrill
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Marshall Terrill mainly grew up in Northern Virginia and San Antonio, Texas.
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Marshall Terrill attended Hayfield Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, Madison High School in San Antonio, and graduated from Robinson High School in Fairfax, Virginia.
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Marshall Terrill moved back to Phoenix in 1994 and followed his biography on McQueen with collaborations with actor Edd "Kookie" Byrnes and actress Barbara Leigh, boxers Aaron Pryor, Ken Norton, and Earnie Shavers, and basketball legend David Thompson.
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In 1999, Marshall Terrill was hired by the East Valley Tribune as a daily reporter.
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Marshall Terrill was hired in 2008 by Arizona State University's Public Affairs Division promoting the university's campus in downtown Phoenix.
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That same year, Marshall Terrill met McQueen's last wife and widow, Barbara, and the two began working on a photo book.
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In October 2006, Marshall Terrill released Maravich, co-authored by Wayne Federman, an exhaustively researched biography on the basketball great, who died on January 5,1988, from a heart defect.
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Marshall Terrill released Steve McQueen: The Last Mile, which is a 250-page photo book containing more than 150 photos of the actor taken by Barbara McQueen.
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Marshall Terrill co-authored with Sonny West, who was Presley's friend and bodyguard for 16 years.
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In 2009 Marshall Terrill co-wrote Palm Springs a la Carte: The Colorful World of the Caviar Crowd at Their Favorite Desert Hideaway with businessman Mel Haber, who is the longtime owner of the Ingleside Inn and Melvyn's restaurant in Palm Springs, California.
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In 2011 Marshall Terrill wrote Downtown Phoenix Campus Arizona State University: The First 5 Years.
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Marshall Terrill's 19th book "Rock and a Heart Place" with Ken Mansfield, is an anthology chronicling the spiritual lives of more than a dozen musicians from the rock era.
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The book spawned a feature documentary called "Steve McQueen: American Icon" in which Marshall Terrill served as an executive producer.
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Marshall Terrill and Laurie partnered again in 2019 for "Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon," continuing on with the series of examinations of pop culture artists who have become born again Christians.
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Marshall Terrill kept busy in 2021 with a second release called "Jesus Music: The Visual Story of Redemption as Told By Those Who Lived It", a history of Contemporary Christian Music.
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Early in 2022, Marshall Terrill announced the formation of True Tales of the Southwest LLC, a production company dedicated to the creation of feature documentary films.