Les Standiford
Les Standiford is author of the novels Spill
(Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), Done Deal
(HarperCollins, 1993), Raw Deal (HC, 1994), Deal
to Die For (HC, 1995), Deal on Ice (HC, 1997),
Presidential Deal (HC, 1998), Black Mountain
(Putnam, 2000), and Deal With the Dead (Putnam,
2001). 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. Standiford is currently Professor
of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at
Florida International University in Miami, where he has
lived since 1985 with his wife Kimberly, a psychotherapist,
and their three children.
Standiford 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.
degrees in Literature and Creative Writing from the
University of Utah. He spent twenty years in the West,
working at times for the U.S. Forest, the Utah Parks
Company, and the U.S. Park Service. He is a former
screenwriting fellow and graduate of the American Film
Institute in Los Angeles. Standiford is also 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.
Standiford wrote the screenplay adaptation of Spill, which
has been released as a feature film starring Brian Bosworth
and seen recently on Showtime. He contributed a
chapter to the national best-seller, Naked Came the
Manatee (Putnam, 1997), with Carl Hiaasen, Elmore
Leonard, James W. Hall, et al., and was contributing editor
of The Putt at the End of the World, a collective
novel of golf, published by Warner Books in June of 2000.
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Books
Bone Key
March 6, 2004
In Key West, a small-time hustler is being beaten by a cop—
and John Deal steps in to stop it. It's only a temporary
rescue, though—the same man is found slain Read more...
Havana Run
May 8, 2003
John Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to
rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father
ruined. When the possibility of a major project in post-
normalized Read more...
Bone Key
April 2, 2002
On a trip to Key West to talk with a wealthy developer
about a new building project, Deal stops to help a young
black man who is being rousted by police on Read more...
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