- Did not start writing until he was in his late thirties and had his first novel published at the age of 44.
- Served in the United States Marine corps.
- Attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he met his wife, actress Mary Ryducha.
- Ludlum started arguably America's first theater to operate in a shopping mall - the Playhouse on the Mall in the Bergen Mall shopping center in Paramus, New Jersey - in the early 1960s, years before discovering his fiction-writing calling. Some of the actors he imported for the venture were Margaret Truman and Farley Granger ("Sweet Bird of Youth"), Bert Lahr ("Harvey"), Chester Morris ("The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial"), David Wayne ("Send Me No Flowers") and Burt Brinckerhoff ("Five-Finger Exercise"). Among the first season's apprentices were Gary Houston, Harriet Hyman and Dennis Metnick.
- First cousin of Edward Ludlum
- Upon his death, his remains were interred at Mount Holiness Church in Inwood section of New York City.
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