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George Edward Stanley (1942–2011)

Autor de The Clue of the Left Handed Envelope

88 Obras 6,354 Miembros 31 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

George Edward Stanley was born in Memphis, Texas on July 15, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967 from Texas Tech University. He earned his Doctor Litterarum in African Linguistics in 1974 from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He lived all mostrar más over Europe and Africa, studying and teaching foreign languages, working for the U.S. government, and writing books for young people and adults. He started writing fiction while a Fulbright professor in Chad, Central Africa, where about the only diversion he found available was listening to the BBC on his short wave radio. That led to his writing radio plays for a program called World Service Short Story. Three of his plays were eventually produced. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistics articles in major international journals, he started writing books. He wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young people including The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series and the Adam Sharp series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of M. T. Coffin, Franklin W. Dixon, Laura Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Adam Mills, and Stuart Symons. He was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the department of foreign languages at Cameron University. He died from a ruptured aneurysm on February 7, 2011 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Incluye los nombres: G. E. Stanley, George E. Stanley, George E. Stanley

También incluye: M. Masters (1)

Nota de desambiguación:

(eng) George Edward Stanley wrote the Hawkeye Collins & Amy Adams series as M. Masters. He also wrote many of the Spinetinglers books under the M. T. Coffin pseudonym.

Series

Obras de George Edward Stanley

The Cobweb Confession (2001) 615 copias
Wild Horses (2001) 253 copias
The Case of the Dirty Clue (2003) 230 copias
Snake Camp (2000) 212 copias
The Secret of the Green Skin (2003) 175 copias
Geronimo: Young Warrior (2001) 152 copias
Ghost Horse (1999) 126 copias
Crazy Horse: Young War Chief (2005) 113 copias
Night Fires (2009) 110 copias
Andrew Jackson (2003) 91 copias
Operation Spy School (2003) 82 copias
The Codebreaker Kids (1987) 74 copias
The Spy Who Barked (2002) 54 copias
Moose Master (2004) 54 copias
Swimming with Sharks (2003) 48 copias
George S. Patton: War Hero (2007) 38 copias
London Calling (2002) 37 copias
The Secret Ingredient (1999) 27 copias
The Ukrainian Egg Mystery (1986) 17 copias
Frogs' Legs for Dinner? (2000) 12 copias
Code Word Kangaroo (2004) 11 copias
Wedding Cookies (2001) 6 copias
Bugs for Breakfast (1996) 6 copias
The Battle of the Bakers (2000) 5 copias
The Case of the Bank-Robbing Bandit — Autor — 4 copias
Aviation Quarterly Volume 8, Number 2 (1985) — Editor — 4 copias
Aviation Quarterly Volume 9, Number 1 (1989) — Editor — 3 copias
Aviation Quarterly Volume 8, Number 4 — Editor — 3 copias
Aviation Quarterly Volume 8, Number 3 — Editor — 3 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Masters, M. (pseudonym)
Coffin, M. T.
Fecha de nacimiento
1942-07-15
Fecha de fallecimiento
2011-02-07
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Memphis, Hall County, Texas, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Causa de fallecimiento
ruptured aneurysm
Lugares de residencia
Memphis, Texas, USA
Chad (Africa)
South Africa
Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Educación
Texas Tech University (BA|1965)
Texas Tech University (MA|1967)
University of Port Elizabeth (DLitt|1974)
Ocupaciones
professor (African and Middle-Eastern Languages and Linguistics)
children's book author
Aviso de desambiguación
George Edward Stanley wrote the Hawkeye Collins & Amy Adams series as M. Masters. He also wrote many of the Spinetinglers books under the M. T. Coffin pseudonym.

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It's 1922, and thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper has moved with his widowed mother to his father's hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Perhaps here he will be able to find the closeness to his father that eluded him when his father was alive. He is befriended by his new next-door neighbor, a powerful state senator who becomes the father figure Woodrow always wanted, who understands him in a way his own father never did. The senator introduces Woodrow to the "best" people in town, but Woodrow soon realizes the "best" people have some terrible secrets, and to be accepted by them he has to do things that make him abandon his own values, culminating in a terrifying act of violence close to home.… (más)
 
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Estadísticas

Obras
88
Miembros
6,354
Popularidad
#3,871
Valoración
½ 3.5
Reseñas
31
ISBNs
343
Idiomas
3

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