Jack R Stanley

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Jack R. Stanley is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star. Yet, he says, "When you're in a firefight, and everybody else on both sides has guns while all you have a camera --- you get to change your pants a lot."After his military service, he received both his M. A. and his Ph. D. at the University of Michigan in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long-running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also won two of Michigan¹s most prestigious creative writing awards. Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He directed for the stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student-staffed, cast, and crewed feature films --- writing most of the original screenplays. A few of his credits are available on IMDB.com. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle, where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www. TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com .