John Reynolds Gardiner

John Reynolds Gardiner
Born December 6, 1944
Los Angeles, California
Died March 4, 2006 (aged 61)
Anaheim, California
Occupation Novelist,
Nationality American
Alma mater UCLA
Genre Children's books
Website
www.johnreynoldsgardiner.com

John Reynolds Gardiner (December 6, 1944 – March 4, 2006) was an American author and engineer. He is famous for writing Stone Fox in 1980 which was later adapted to an NBC movie. He has also edited children's stories for television.

Biography

Born in Los Angeles, California, he was a rebellious boy whose teachers believed he would never get anywhere in life. He earned his master's degree from University of California, Los Angeles. He was an engineer before working on his first and best-known children's book, Stone Fox, which, at the time of his death in 2006, had sold four million copies.[1] Always creative, in his younger years he ran Num Num Novelties, home to such originals as the aquarium tie. He lived in West Germany, El Salvador, Mexico Italy, Ireland and Idaho where he heard a local legend that inspired Stone Fox. He took a special class on screenplay and wrote Stone Fox as movie but a producer told him to publish it into a novel.[1] Gardiner also edited children's stories for television. He lived out his final years with his wife, Gloria, in California and died of complications from pancreatitis in Anaheim, California.[1]

He also taught writing workshops around the world.

Works

Novels
Filmography

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Brozan, Nadine (March 19, 2006). "John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, Author of Children's Books (obituary)". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2010.

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