Jack Schaefer

Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 - January 24, 1991) was a twentieth century American author, known for his Westerns. His most famous work may be Shane, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie. He is a graduate of Oberlin College (1929) and attended Columbia University from 1929-30. In addition to writing many novels, he worked as a journalist and freelance writer throughout his career. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and died of congestive heart failure in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Shane (1949)
First Blood (1953)
The Big Range (1953) (short stories)
The Canyon (1953)
The Pioneers (1954) (short stories)
Out West: An Anthology of Stories (1955) (Editor)
Company of Cowards (1957)
The Kean Land and Other Stories (1959)
Old Ramon (1960)
Tales from the West (1961)
Incident on the Trail (1962)
The Plainsmen (1963) (children's book)
Monte Walsh (1963)
The Great Endurance Horse Race: 600 Miles on a Single Mount, 1908, from Evanston, Wyoming, to Denver (1963)
Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1964) (children's book)
Heroes without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West (1965)
Collected Stories (1966)
Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1966)
New Mexico (1967) (children's book)
The Short Novels of Jack Schaefer (1967)
Mavericks (1967) (children's book)
Hal West: Western Gallery (1971)
An American Bestiary (1973)
Conversations with a Pocket Gopher and Other Outspoken Neighbors (1978)
Jack Schaefer and the American West: Eight Stories (1978) (edited by C.E.J. Smith)
The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer (1985)