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Director and Professor of English,
is author of the novel Spill (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), as well as
the best-selling John Deal novels: Done Deal (HarperCollins, 1993), Raw
Deal (HarperCollins, 1994), Deal to Die For (HarperCollins, 1995), Deal
on Ice (HarperCollins, 1997), and the most recent Deal book, Presidential
Deal (HarperCollins, 1998). He is a past
recipient of the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Florida Individual
Artist Fellowship in Fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
in Fiction. He has lived in Miami since 1981 with his wife Kimberly, a
psychotherapist, and their three children, Jeremy, Hannah, and Alexander.
"Les
Standiford makes it look easy and elegant...
each scene unfolds like a little gasp for breath." -- New York
Times
"John
Deal is such a rich creation you'll have to remind yourself you're reading
fiction." -- Chicago Tribune
"...calls
to mind the fiction of Graham Greene." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Standiford's short stories and articles have appeared in a number of
magazines and anthologies, including The Kansas Quarterly,Writers'
Digest, Smoke, The Key West Reader, Confrontation, Three
American Literatures, Perfect Lies: A Century of Classic Golf Fiction,
and Communion: Contemporary Fiction Writers ReRead the Bible. His novels
have been reprinted in the United Kingdom, Holland, France, Germany, and Japan.
He has been a regular reviewer for The Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune,
New York Newsday, and The New York Daily News.
He attended the Air Force Academy, Columbia University School of
Law, and holds a B.A. in Psychology from Muskingum College in Ohio and the M.A.
and Ph.D in Literature and Creative Writing from the Universityof Utah. He spent
twenty years in the West, working at times for the U.S. Forestry, the Utah Parks
Company, and the U.S.Park Service. He is a former screenwriting fellow and a
graduate of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He is the co-author of Bones
of Coral, a screenplay based on the novel of the same name by James W.Hall,
for MGM-Pathe. He is a member of the Associated Writing Programs, Mystery
Writers of America, and the Writers Guild.
He wrote the screenplay adaptaion of Spill, which has been
released as a feature film starring Brian Bosworth and seen recently on
SHOWTIME. He is author of the text for the best-selling book of photographs by
Alan S. Maltz, Miami: City of Dreams (1997), and of the history, Coral
Gables: The City Beautiful (Riverbend Books, 1998). He has contributed a
chapter to the national best-seller, Naked Came the Manatee (Putnam,
1997) with Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, James W. Hall, et al.
To order any of Les Standiford's titles, including Miami: City of
Dreams and Coral Gables: The City Beautiful, go directly to Books and Books Online!
His new novel, Black Mountain, is due out any day from GP
Putnam.
email: standifo@fiu.edu