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Jack Schaefer

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born

November 19, 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

died

January 24, 1991

gender

male

genre

Westerns, Children's Books

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Schaefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of an attorney. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1929 with a major in English. He attended graduate school at Columbia University from 1929-30, but left without completing his Master of Arts degree. He then went to work for the United Press. In his long career as a journalist, he would hold editorial positions at many eastern publications.

Schaefer's first success as a novelist came in 1949 with his memorable novel Shane, set in Wyoming. Few realized that Schaefer himself had never been anywhere near the west. Nevertheless, he continued writing successful westerns, selling his home in Connecticut and moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1955.

In 1975 Schaefer received the Western Literature Assoc...more

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Books by Jack Schaefer

Average rating: 3.59 · 2,592 ratings · 225 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Shane by Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor (Illustrations) 3.59 avg rating — 2,515 ratings — published 1949 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Monte Walsh 3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Old Ramon 2.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Canyon 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer: With Introductrion 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Conversations with a Pocket Gopher, and Other Outspoken Neighbors 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	My rating:
	First Blood (Alpha Books) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Company of Cowards 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1957 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Heroes without Glory: Some Good Men of the Old West by Jack Schaefer, Oakley Hall (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Kean Land 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Jack Schaefer

“What a man knows isn’t important. It’s what he is that counts”
― Jack Schaefer

tags: joe-starrett , shane

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“They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common knowledge is already there. The silence bound them as no words ever could.”
― Jack Schaefer

tags: cowboys , joe-starret , shane

2 people liked it

“Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel- or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good- and as bad- as the man who carries it. Remember that.”
― Jack Schaefer

tags: cowboy , joe-starret

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