Jack Schaefer

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Jack Warner Schaefer (born November 19, 1907 in Cleveland , Ohio , † January 24, 1991 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was an American journalist and writer with German roots.

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Schaefer was the son of the lawyer Carl Walter Schaefer and his wife Minnie Hively and came from a family of German immigrants. He attended Oberlin College (Ohio) and was able to move to Columbia University ( New York ) in 1929 .

He left the university in the following year not finish and began freelancing for the United Press (UP) in New Haven ( Connecticut ) to work. He later worked there as a journalist and editor. Before he was brought to the administration of the Connecticut State Reformatory in Cheshire in 1931 , he married Eugenie Hammond Ives.

In 1939 Schaefer changed to the editorial office of the Journal Courier , which he was editor of until 1942. In the same position, he moved to the Baltimore Sun and headed this newspaper until 1944. Parallel to his job, Schaefer began to write literary works and found his genre in Wild West novels.

Schaefer debuted successfully in 1946 with Riders from Nowhere ; this story appeared in three parts in the Pulp magazine Argosy . After being revised by the author, this story was published as a novel called Shane in 1949 . He had divorced the year before and married Louise Deans in 1949, with whom he settled in Santa Fe in 1955.

At the age of 83, Jack Schaefer died of heart failure in Santa Fe, where he found his final resting place.

Honors

Works (selection)

Books for children and young readers
  • The plainsmen . Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass. 1963.
  • Stubby Pringle's Christmas . London 1964.
  • Mavericks . London 1967.
Short stories
  • The big range. Short stories . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1958.
  • The pioneers . Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass. 1954.
  • Out West An anthology of stories . Corgi Books, London 1972 (2 vols., EA London 1959).
  • The Kean Land and other stories . Corgi Books, London 1973
Novels
  • Shane . 1949.
    • German: My great friend Shane. A classic western novel . Heyne, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-453-20212-0 .
  • First blood . 1953.
    • German: The trial by fire . AWA-Verlag, Munich 1954.
  • The canyon . 1953.
    • German: Der Felsenkäfig (Ravensburger Taschenbuch; Vol. 189). O. Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1971 (EA Stuttgart 1964).
  • Old Ramon . 1960.
    • German: The big herd . Breitschopf-Verlag, Vienna 1971 (EA Stuttgart 1962).
Non-fiction
  • Heroes without glory. Some goodmen of the Old West . Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass. 1965.
  • Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (Western Americana; Vol. 7). Press of the Territories, Santa Fe, NM 1966.
  • Hal West . Museum Press, Santa Fe NM 1971 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name).
  • American Bestiary . Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass. 1975, ISBN 0-3952-0710-X .
Work edition
  • The collected stories of Jack Schaefer . Arbor House, New York 1985, ISBN 0-87795-712-6 .

Film adaptations

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morningside Heights , Manhattan .
  2. ↑ Contents: Something lost. - Leander Frailey. - That dark horse. - My town. - Harvey Kendall. - Cat nipped. - Out of the past. - Prudence by name. - Old anse. - Takes a real man. - Hugo Kertchak, builder.
  3. ↑ Contents: The Kean land. - stalemates. - Nate Bartlett's store. - The old man. - In harmony. - Trail crew. - The fifth man. - Enos Carr. - The coup of Long Lance. - Salt of the earth. - One man's honor.
personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaefer, Jack Warner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer with German roots
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1991
Place of death Santa Fe , New Mexico