Editing Tom Clancy (section)

== Achievements and awards ==
* Clancy was one of only three authors to sell two million copies on a first printing in the 1990s (the others were [[John Grisham]] and [[J. K. Rowling]]). Clancy's novel ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1989) sold 1,625,544 hardcover copies, making it the #1 bestselling novel of the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/25thann/bestsellers.htm |title=Top Hardcover Bestsellers, 1972–1996 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=June 1, 1997 |access-date=February 28, 2010}}</ref>
* Clancy received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}</ref> Clancy was the Host of the 1995 Achievement Summit in Colonial Williamsburg and the 1997 Achievement Summit in Baltimore.<ref>{{cite web |date=1995 |title=George H.W. Bush Interview Photo |url= https://achievement.org/achiever/george-h-w-bush/|quote= June 1995: President George H.W. Bush at a ceremony featuring the United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon during the American Academy of Achievement's "Salute to Excellence" Program in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Nix |first=Shan |date= June 26, 1989 |title= Looking Up to the Stars: Where 50 top celebs dazzle 400 students |url= https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/San-Francisco-Chronicle-June-26-1989.pdf|work= San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Morrison |first=Jane Ann |date= June 28, 1992 |title= Bright students, stars shine together |url= https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Las-Vegas-Review-Journal-June-28-1992.pdf|work= Las Vegas Review Journal}}</ref>
* Clancy received an [[honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] in [[Doctor of Humane Letters|humane letters]] and delivered the commencement address at [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] in 1992, and had since worked a reference to the school into many of his main works.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/Magazine/summer04/atrensselaer/atrensselaer10.html |title=Rensselaer Magazine: Summer 2004: At Rensselaer |publisher=Rpi.edu |access-date=February 28, 2010 |archive-date=May 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528221949/http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/Magazine/summer04/atrensselaer/atrensselaer10.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Clancy was an honorary [[Yeomen Warders|Yeoman Warder]] of the [[Tower of London]] and received the title "Supernumerary Yeoman"; he had been arrested for scaling the walls in his younger years.<ref>{{cite news |author=Bucktin, Christopher |title=Tom Clancy dead: Best-selling author of Jack Ryan novels dies in hospital aged 66 |work=The Mirror |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tom-clancy-dead-jack-ryan-2331255}}</ref>
* Clancy received the [[Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement]] from the [[Navy League of the United States]] in 1990.