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George Edward Stanley (1942–2011)

Auteur van The Clue of the Left Handed Envelope

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George Edward Stanley was born in Memphis, Texas on July 15, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967 from Texas Tech University. He earned his Doctor Litterarum in African Linguistics in 1974 from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He lived all toon meer over Europe and Africa, studying and teaching foreign languages, working for the U.S. government, and writing books for young people and adults. He started writing fiction while a Fulbright professor in Chad, Central Africa, where about the only diversion he found available was listening to the BBC on his short wave radio. That led to his writing radio plays for a program called World Service Short Story. Three of his plays were eventually produced. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistics articles in major international journals, he started writing books. He wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young people including The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series and the Adam Sharp series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of M. T. Coffin, Franklin W. Dixon, Laura Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Adam Mills, and Stuart Symons. He was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the department of foreign languages at Cameron University. He died from a ruptured aneurysm on February 7, 2011 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:

(eng) George Edward Stanley wrote the Hawkeye Collins & Amy Adams series as M. Masters. He also wrote many of the Spinetinglers books under the M. T. Coffin pseudonym.

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The Cobweb Confession (2001) 617 exemplaren
The Mystery of the Stolen Statue (2004) 419 exemplaren
The Mystery of the Hairy Tomatoes (2001) 274 exemplaren
Wild Horses (2001) 254 exemplaren
The Case of the Dirty Clue (2003) 231 exemplaren
The Riddle of the Stolen Sand (2003) 213 exemplaren
Snake Camp (2000) 212 exemplaren
The Secret of the Wooden Witness (2004) 182 exemplaren
The Secret of the Green Skin (2003) 176 exemplaren
Geronimo: Young Warrior (2001) 153 exemplaren
Ghost Horse (1999) 126 exemplaren
Crazy Horse: Young War Chief (2005) 115 exemplaren
Night Fires (2009) 110 exemplaren
Andrew Jackson (2003) 91 exemplaren
Operation Spy School (2003) 82 exemplaren
The Codebreaker Kids (1987) 74 exemplaren
Moose Master (2004) 55 exemplaren
The Spy Who Barked (2002) 54 exemplaren
Swimming with Sharks (2003) 48 exemplaren
George S. Patton: War Hero (2007) 38 exemplaren
London Calling (2002) 37 exemplaren
Sitting Bull: Great Sioux Hero (2010) 36 exemplaren
Davy Crockett: Frontier Legend (2008) 35 exemplaren
The Day the Ants Got Really Mad (1996) 34 exemplaren
The Secret Ingredient (1999) 27 exemplaren
The Ukrainian Egg Mystery (1986) 17 exemplaren
Teddy Kennedy: Lion of the Senate (2010) 17 exemplaren
Frogs' Legs for Dinner? (2000) 12 exemplaren
Code Word Kangaroo (2004) 12 exemplaren
The Italian Spaghetti Mystery (1987) 8 exemplaren
The Codebreaker Kids Return (1989) 6 exemplaren
Wedding Cookies (2001) 6 exemplaren
Bugs for Breakfast (1996) 6 exemplaren
The Battle of the Bakers (2000) 5 exemplaren
The Case of the Bank-Robbing Bandit — Auteur — 4 exemplaren
Aviation Quarterly Volume 8, Number 2 (1985) — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
Aviation Quarterly Volume 8, Number 4 — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
Aviation Quarterly Volume 8, Number 3 — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
The Mexican Tamale Mystery (1988) 3 exemplaren
Aviation Quarterly Volume 9, Number 1 (1989) — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
The New Republic: 1763-1815 (2005) 3 exemplaren
A Werewolf Followed Me Home (1997) 2 exemplaren

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Masters, M. (pseudonym)
Coffin, M. T.
Geboortedatum
1942-07-15
Overlijdensdatum
2011-02-07
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Memphis, Hall County, Texas, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
ruptured aneurysm
Woonplaatsen
Memphis, Texas, USA
Chad (Africa)
South Africa
Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Opleiding
Texas Tech University (BA|1965)
Texas Tech University (MA|1967)
University of Port Elizabeth (DLitt|1974)
Beroepen
professor (African and Middle-Eastern Languages and Linguistics)
children's book author
Ontwarringsbericht
George Edward Stanley wrote the Hawkeye Collins & Amy Adams series as M. Masters. He also wrote many of the Spinetinglers books under the M. T. Coffin pseudonym.

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It's 1922, and thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper has moved with his widowed mother to his father's hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Perhaps here he will be able to find the closeness to his father that eluded him when his father was alive. He is befriended by his new next-door neighbor, a powerful state senator who becomes the father figure Woodrow always wanted, who understands him in a way his own father never did. The senator introduces Woodrow to the "best" people in town, but Woodrow soon realizes the "best" people have some terrible secrets, and to be accepted by them he has to do things that make him abandon his own values, culminating in a terrifying act of violence close to home.… (meer)
 
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