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Jack R. Stanley is an award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam he was awarded the Bronze Star. Yet he says, “When you’re in a firefight and everybody else on both side have guns while you have a camera --- you get to change your pants a lot.”
After his military service he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also received two of Michigan¹s most prestigious creative writing awards
Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He dir ...more

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	West Of The Frio: The Texas Ranger Chronicles: A Classic Western 4.28 avg rating — 47 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Reckoning by Stanley, Jack (2008) Paperback really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Master Character File

I need to start a Master Character file so I don't end up reusing character names. I just discovered I had done that. I always imagined that I'd get in intern to go through all my novels, screenplay, short stories, and stage plays --- pulling out all the character names and make a list of them all so I could recheck to make sure I'm not repeating myself. But it's one of those things I never got ar Read more of this blog post »

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“All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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