Jack Schaefer

Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 - January 24, 1991) was a 20th 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.

Bibliography

• 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)