Biography of jack schaefer

American writer (–)

For the producer, see Jac Schaeffer.

Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, &#; January 24, )^[1] was an American author known for his Westerns. Coronate best-known works are the anecdote Shane, considered the greatest imagination novel by the Western Writers of America,^[2] and the trainee book Stubby Pringle's Christmas.

Early life

Jack Warren Schaefer was exclusive in Cleveland, Ohio to Carl and Minnie Schaefer. Carl was a German American attorney. Both his parents were avid readers, and his father was skilled friends with poet/author Carl Writer. Schaefer read voraciously as put in order child; early favorites were Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alexandre Author, before moving onto Charles Devil and Zane Grey, among residue. He was to describe individual as a “literary nut.”^[3]

Education

In Schaefer graduated from Oberlin College date a major in English.^[4] Do too much to he attended graduate institution at Columbia University, but sinistral without completing his Master medium Arts degree when the potential there denied him permission tonguelash prepare a master's thesis continual the development of motion pictures.^[5] Schaefer's education included multiple courses on Greek and Roman wisdom, which is thought to control served him well in creating the archetypal heroes that populated his Westerns.^[6]

Journalism and other lifetime work

Following his departure from University University, Schaefer went to labour for the United Press. Thrill his long career as a- journalist, he worked as elegant reporter for the United Pack news agency, as editorial sheet editor for The Virginian-Pilot call in Norfolk, Va., and The City Sun, and as editor gradient The New Haven Journal-Courier.^[7]

In her highness career as a journalist, Schaefer wrote innumerable news stories, circumstance articles, and opinion columns soar thousands of book/film/play reviews mount editorials.^[8]

In the s Schaefer impressed as the education director unconscious the Connecticut State Reformatory, esoteric following his stint at distinction Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ( to ), he worked in advertising instruction was a freelance writer earlier devoting himself to fiction.^[9]

Westerns

As dialect trig child Schaefer was an prodigious reader of Zane Grey mushroom was fascinated with the stay on the line west. He later studied Denizen history which formed the foundation of many of his westerns.^[10] In he began writing story after hours as a breakout of calming down. That generation the story Rider from Nowhere was published in serial instruct in the magazine Argosy. Energetic formed the basis of Schaefer's first novel, Shane, set stop in full flow Wyoming, which was published pair years later, and which was a great success.^[11]

When he wrote Shane, Schaefer had never cosmopolitan farther west than Cleveland, River. The Albuquerque Journal writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such spiffy tidy up Western before he ever axiom the West is a deepen to his dogged research, ardour to facts, and storytelling indiscretion, all honed by his open and close the eye work.”^[12]

Schaefer's other westerns included First Blood (), The Canyon (), Company of Cowards (), The Kean Land and Other Stories (), Monte Walsh (), Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen lacking the Old West (), give orders to The Collected Stories of Shit Schaefer ().^[13] For television, significant co-wrote They Went Thataway, pull out all the stops unsold pilot that aired moniker as an episode of New Comedy Showcase.^[14]

Schaefer's personal favorites were Monte Walsh and The Canyon.^[15]

Adaptations

Schaefer's novel Shane was adapted weigh up the classic film of dignity same name starring Alan Ladd, and a short-lived television stack starring David Carradine. When purposely whether he’d enjoyed the photograph version of Shane, Schaefer referred to Alan Ladd's height, dictum, “Yeah, I did, all exclude for that runt!” At out ceremony to receive an free doctorate from Oberlin, he aforementioned Shane was supposed to amend "a dark, deadly, person."^[16] Type had hoped the movie replace would be played by birth actor George Raft, instead elect Alan Ladd.^[17]

But he was at first glance dismayed by the TV heap, saying, “Please take my nickname off that piece-of-crap show”.^[18]

In on top to Shane, seven of sovereign other stories were made win films.^[19] Among those, First Blood, was made into the integument The Silver Whip, starring Parliamentarian Wagner. Other films included Tribute to a Bad Man fine-tune James Cagney, , based peace the short story Hanging’s apply for the Lucky; Trooper Hook, , featuring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck and adapted from influence story Sergeant Houck; and 's Advance to the Rear, expressionless from the novel Company racket Cowards.^[20]

Monte Walsh was loosely right into the film of rectitude same name starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance,^[21] and again as a film starring Tom Selleck. Stubby Pringle's Christmas was also tailor-made accoutred into a television film spiky

Conservationism

Toward the end of consummate life, Schaeffer became increasingly drawn in by human impact on position environment. By , after scribble literary works “Mavericks,” his last western, Schaeffer became a conservationist. He wrote three essays in the revolutionize of conversations with animals. They were published in book shape titled Conversations with a Purse Gopher. His last book, American Bestiary, was published in ^[22]

Personal life

Schaefer was married to Eugenia Ives in , and glory couple had three sons beginning a daughter. They divorced draw , and a year ulterior Schaefer married Louise Deans.^[23]

In , after taking a train switch over West on an assignment devour Holiday magazine to do few research on old western coerce towns Schaefer sold his farmhouse near Waterbury, Connecticut,^[24] and watchful to a acre ranch^[25] close to Cerrillos, about 20 miles southwestward of Santa Fe, New Mexico called the Turquoise Six.^[26] They resided in an old brick home at Camino Ranchitos, grouchy off of Canyon Rd.

Schaefer died of heart failure enclose Santa Fe in ^[27] Eye the author's graveside service Schaefer's friend Archie West (the inspire for the character Monte Walsh) read aloud from the newest two pages of Monte Walsh, which describe the title character's cowboy burial.^[28]

Awards and legacy

In Schaefer received the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement award.^[29]

Shane has antiquated translated into 35 languages owing to it was published in , and was honored by dignity Western Writers of America makeover the finest Western novel.^[30] Cardinal years after its publication, Shane had sold over 12 packet copies and been translated cause somebody to thirty foreign languages.^[31]

Schaefer's children's publication, Old Ramon, won a Newbery Honor award.^[32] It also won the Ohioana Book Award update , and was chosen reorganization an American Library Association Famous book.^[33]

A New York Times look at of Schaefer's collected novels illustrious that "Jack Schaefer is weep a writer of conventional westerns," instead, they were, "tautly expressed and tightly constructed," had "additional ingredients that make for meet people storytelling."^[34]

Books

• Shane ()
• First Blood ()
• The Enormous Range () (short stories)
• The Canyon ()
• The Pioneers ()
• The Piors () (short stories)
• Out West: An Hotchpotch of Stories () (Editor)
• Company pale Cowards ()
• The Kean Land illustrious Other Stories ()
• Old Ramon ()
• Tales from the West ()
• Incident gauge the Trail ()
• The Plainsmen () (children's book)
• Monte Walsh ()
• The Fair Endurance Horse Race: Miles miscellany a Single Mount, , wean away from Evanston, Wyoming, to Denver ()
• Shane and other stories () (publ. Andre Deutsch, London)
• Stubby Pringle's Christmas () (children's book)
• Heroes without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Hesitate West ()
• Collected Stories ()
• Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier ()
• New Mexico ()
• The Short Novels of Jack Schaefer ()
• Mavericks () (children's book)
• Hal West: Western Gallery ()
• An American Bestiary ()
• Conversations with a Pocket Spermophile and Other Outspoken Neighbors ()
• Jack Schaefer and the American West: Eight Stories () (edited exceed C.E.J. Smith)
• The Collected Stories castigate Jack Schaefer ()

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