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Profile of Jack Schaefer on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Jack Schaefer  
   
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Date of Birth: 19th November 1907
   
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 - January 24, 1991) was a 20th century American author, known for his Westerns. His most famous work may be Shane, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie. He is a graduate of Oberlin College (1929) and attended Columbia University from 1929-30. In addition to writing many novels, he worked as a journalist and freelance writer throughout his career. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and died of congestive heart failure in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Bibliography

  • Shane (1949)
  • First Blood (1953)
  • The Big Range (1953) (short stories)
  • The Canyon (1953)
  • The Pioneers (1954) (short stories)
  • Out West: An Anthology of Stories (1955) (Editor)
  • Company of Cowards (1957)
  • The Kean Land and Other Stories (1959)
  • Old Ramon (1960)
  • Tales from the West (1961)
  • Incident on the Trail (1962)
  • The Plainsmen (1963) (children's book)
  • Monte Walsh (1963)
  • The Great Endurance Horse Race: 600 Miles on a Single Mount, 1908, from Evanston, Wyoming, to Denver (1963)
  • Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1964) (children's book)
  • Heroes without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West (1965)
  • Collected Stories (1966)
  • Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1966)
  • New Mexico (1967) (children's book)
  • The Short Novels of Jack Schaefer (1967)
  • Mavericks (1967) (children's book)
  • Hal West: Western Gallery (1971)
  • An American Bestiary (1973)
  • Conversations with a Pocket Gopher and Other Outspoken Neighbors (1978)
  • Jack Schaefer and the American West: Eight Stories (1978) (edited by C.E.J. Smith)
  • The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer (1985)

References

  • "Jack (Warner) Schaefer", Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, entry updated 09/05/2003.

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