Jack Schaefer

Jack Schaefer was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a lawyer; his parents were keen readers, and his father was a friend of the poet Carl Sandburg. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1929 with a major in English and studied briefly at Columbia University, leaving when he was not allowed to write a thesis on the development of motion pictures. He worked for the United Press and then for many years as a newspaper editor in Connecticut, Virginia and elsewhere. Although he had never been to the West, he wrote Shane, first published as a magazine serial and then as a novel in 1949. It is narrated by a boy, Bob Starrett, on a Wyoming homestead in 1889, whose family is visited by a mysterious stranger who helps them stand up to a powerful cattle rancher. It became a classic Western and an acclaimed film in 1953, and the Western Writers of America later named it the greatest Western novel. Schaefer moved to New Mexico, wrote other Westerns and books about animals and the environment, and died in Santa Fe in 1991.

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