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Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 – 24 January 1991) [1] was an American writer known for his Westerns. His best-known works are the 1949 novel Shane, considered the greatest western novel by the Western Writers of America, [2] and the 1964 children's book Stubby Pringle's Christmas .
Jack Schaefer was an American writer born in 1907 best known for his work in the genre of Westerns. Readers will most likely associate Jack Schaefer with his book ‘Shane’. +Biography
Jack Schaefer has 87 books on Goodreads with 32049 ratings. Jack Schaefer’s most popular book is Shane.
Jack Schaefer (Author of Shane) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Jack Schaefer's books. Join Goodreads. Jack Schaefer’s Followers (95) Born. in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States. November 19, 1907. Died. January 24, 1991. Genre. Westerns, Children's Books. edit data.
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Shane is a western novel by Jack Schaefer published in 1949. It was initially published in 1946 in three parts in Argosy magazine, and originally titled Rider from Nowhere. [1] . The novel has been printed in seventy or more editions, [2] and translated into over 30 languages, [1] and was adapted into the 1953 film starring Alan Ladd. [3] Plot.
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Learn about the life and works of Jack Schaefer, the author of Shane, one of the top Western novels of all time. Discover how he became a journalist, a writer, and a conservationist, and how he explored the themes of the American West in his fiction.
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Jack Schaefer. University of Nebraska Press, 1984 - Fiction - 432 pages. Shane was made into an award-winning film that--like the novel--became a standard by which later westerns were judged.
