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Les Standiford is an author and, since 1985, the Founding Director of the Florida International University Creative Writing Program in Miami, Florida. He also holds the Peter Meinke Chair in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida (named for Peter Meinke). His most recent books have been narrative non-fiction historical works. His novels featuring the character "John Deal" put him in the Miami School of crime fiction, whose progenitors are Charles Willeford and John D. MacDonald, and which includes Elmore Leonard, Jeff Lindsay, Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall, Paul Levine, Edna Buchanan, and Barbara Parker.Standiford's students have included novelists Dennis Lehane, Barbara Parker, Vicki Hendricks, Ginny Rorby, and Neil Plakcy. According to ''Publishers Weekly'', in 1976, while he was the chairman of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas El Paso, "Standiford gave Raymond Carver his first job ... when Carver was recovering from his infamous alcoholic crash and burn." Provided by Wikipedia
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Battle for the big topPT Barnum James Bailey John Ringling and the death-defying saga of the American circusBookby Standiford, Les
Published 2021Book
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Meet you in hellAndrew Carnegie Henry Clay Frick and the bitter partnership that transformed AmericaBookby Standiford, Les
Published 2005
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The man who invented Christmashow Charles Dickens's A Christmas carol rescued his career and revived our holiday spiritsBookby Standiford, Les
Published 2008Book
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