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    Les Standiford

    Les Standiford is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels as well as several works of nonfiction including Last Train to Paradise, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Meet You in Hell, and Washington Burning. He has received the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is founding director of the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and was appointed holder of the Peter Meinke Chair in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. He lives in Pinecrest, Florida, with his wife and three children.
    The Man Who Invented Christmas
    The Man Who Invented Christmas
    How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
    Les Standiford
    9780307405791
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 25, 2011
    Crown
    Meet You in Hell
    Meet You in Hell
    Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
    Les Standiford
    9781400047680
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 13, 2006
    Crown
    Last Train to Paradise
    Last Train to Paradise
    Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
    Les Standiford
    9781400049479
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 05, 2003
    Crown

    Books

    The Man Who Invented Christmas
    The Man Who Invented Christmas
    How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
    Les Standiford
    9780307405791
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 25, 2011
    Crown
    Meet You in Hell
    Meet You in Hell
    Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
    Les Standiford
    9781400047680
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 13, 2006
    Crown
    Last Train to Paradise
    Last Train to Paradise
    Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
    Les Standiford
    9781400049479
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 05, 2003
    Crown

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