Ellis Amdur

American writer

エリス・アムダー

Born

27 March 1952, Pittsburgh

Citizenship

United States

Sport

aikido

Occupation

aikidoka, writer

Ellis Amdur (born March 27, 1952, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a writer, an American practitioner of martial arts and as of 2024, retired crisis intervention trainer. He has dedicated much of his life to studying and teaching classical Japanese martial traditions. He has published a number of books on martial arts, on crisis intervention, hostage negotiation, and fiction.

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q19879592 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.