Les Standiford
Autor de Naked Came the Manatee
Sobre El Autor
Les Standiford is the director of the creative writing program at Florida International University. He has lived in Miami since 1981. Les Standiford is a historian and author. He has been awarded the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction, and a mostrar más National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and belongs to the Associated Writing Programs, Mystery Writers of America, and the Writers Guild. Standiford's main non-fiction writings include: Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction that Changed America; The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits; Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army; Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America; and Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean. The last title was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. His fiction novels include: Done Deal; Raw Deal; Black Mountain; Bone Key; and Havana Run. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Virginia Wells
Series
Obras de Les Standiford
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (2002) 539 copias
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America (2005) 444 copias
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday… (2008) 411 copias
Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the… (2008) 127 copias
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles (1800) 124 copias
Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War (2012) 97 copias
Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus (2021) 63 copias
Ancient Rain 1 copia
Last Train to Paradise 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contribuidor — 558 copias
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Contribuidor — 45 copias
Mystery in the Sunshine State: Florida Short Stories by Florida's Mystery Writers (1999) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1978-1983 (Contemporary Anthology Series) (1987) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1945-10-31
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Educación
- Columbia School of Law
United States Air Force Academy
Muskingum College (BA ∙ Psychology)
University of Utah (MA + PhD|Literature and creative writing) - Ocupaciones
- university professor
- Organizaciones
- Florida International University (Director of the Creative Writing Program)
- Premios y honores
- Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 31
- También por
- 8
- Miembros
- 3,369
- Popularidad
- #7,568
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 131
- ISBNs
- 171
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 5