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Frank Beddor (July 31, 1958) is an American former world champion freestyle skier, film producer, actor, stuntman, and author. He worked as a producer on ''

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'' and ''

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'', and wrote the book ''

The Looking Glass Wars ''The Looking Glass Wars'' is a series of three novels by Frank Beddor, heavily inspired by Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and its 1871 sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''. The premise is that the two books w ...

''.

Life and career

Beddor grew up in

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. His parents often traveled and by age twelve, Beddor already knew how to barefoot-ski. After winning nationals, Beddor was invited to join the Olympic ski team. He went on tour in Europe for competitive skiing. Beddor was World Champion freestyler skier in 1981 and 1982. In 1985 Beddor played

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's skiing stunt double in '' Better Off Dead''. Beddor moved to Los Angeles during this period and studied with acting coach

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Part of Adler's method was encouraging her students to write the scene the character is in before stepping onstage. Later, Beddor started his career in producing. He worked as a producer on the 1998 film ''

'' starring

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and

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. Beddor then turned to writing, spending five years writing ''

''. The book was rejected by every major publisher in the US, and ultimately published by

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in the UK. ''The Looking Glass Wars'' made it on ''

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'' weekly list in 2006. The books are based on a re-imagination of

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's novel ''

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''. The premise of the novel is that the main character Alice in ''Alice in Wonderland'' is real, as is the world of Wonderland, but that Carroll misrepresented the events and made Wonderland seem childlike instead of reflecting the reality of Wonderland. Beddor has written two more books in ''The Looking Glass Wars'' series: '' Seeing Redd'' and ''

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''. A spin-off comic book of this serie called '' Hatter Madigan'' was later written by Beddor and Liz Cavalier, with artwork by

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. The spin-off focuses on Hatter Madigan, a character in ''The Looking Glass Wars''. Beddor was involved in the development of two video games: Card Soldiers Wars in 2008 and The Looking Glass Wars Card Game in 2009.

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