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Doug Stanton is an American
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, lecturer, screenwriter, and author of ''New York Times'' bestsellers ''In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors'' (2001) and ''Horse Soldiers'' (2009) which is the basis for the 2018 feature film ''
12 Strong ''12 Strong'' (also known as ''12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers'') is a 2018 American action-war film directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig. The film is based on Doug Stanton's non-fict ...
''. ''In Harm’s Way'' spent more than six months on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list and became required reading on the U.S. Navy's reading list for officers. The unabridged audio book edition of ''In Harm’s Way'' won the 2017 Audie Award in the History category. Stanton‘s third book ''The Odyssey of Echo Company'' was published in 2017.


Early life and education

Stanton attended
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,
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, and received an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the
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, where he graduated with coursework in both fiction and poetry workshops. Stanton has taught writing and English at the high school and college level, and worked as a commercial sports fisherman in
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, and caretaker of
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's house in Vermont.


Career

Stanton is an author and a founder of the National Writers Series (2009) and the
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(2005). He graduated from the
Interlochen Arts Academy Interlochen Center for the Arts is a non-profit corporation which operates arts education institutions and performance venues in northwest Michigan. It is situated on a campus in Interlochen, Michigan, roughly southwest of Traverse City. In ...
in Michigan and
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in Massachusetts.Author Biography
Since graduating from the
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Writer's Workshop, he has worked as a contributing editor at ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Stanton has written extensively on travel, sports, entertainment and history. Throughout his career, he has nearly drowned in
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waters, survived a mugging by jungle revolutionaries, played basketball with
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, and taken an acting lesson from
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. Stanton has appeared on national TV and radio outlets, including the ''Today Show'', ''CNN'', ''Imus In The Morning'', ''Discovery'', A&E, History channel, ''Fox News'', ''NPR'', ''MSNBC’s Morning Joe'', C-SPAN’s BookTV, PBS, and ''NBC Nightly News'', and has been covered in prominent publications, including the ''Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Miami Herald, New York Times''. Drawing on his experiences working in the US and overseas, and with contacts in various branches of the U.S. military and government, Stanton lectures nationally to corporate and civic groups, libraries, writing & book clubs, and universities about current events, international affairs, politics, and writing. His writing has appeared in the ''New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, TIME, the Washington Post, Men’s Journal, Sports Afield, The Daily Beast'', and ''Newsweek''; and at ''Esquire'' and ''Outside'', where he also has been a contributing editor. Stanton’s ''Horse Soldiers'' was a best-seller on lists in ''USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly Publishers Weekly'', and ''IndieBound''. ''Horse Soldiers'' was named a “Notable Book” by ''The New York Times''. The ''Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association'' made ''Horse Soldiers'' a “Great Lakes, Great Reads” book, and it was chosen as a “Best Book” by ''Publishers Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com.'' Stanton’s book ''In Harm’s Way'', about the sinking of the WWII cruiser and the gallant fight of her crew to exonerate their court-martialed captain, was also an international bestseller (UK’s ''The Sunday Times''). The book has been translated into German, Japanese, Danish, Spanish, and Italian. ''In Harm’s Way'' appeared on the ''Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune'', ''Detroit Free Press'', and ''Book Sense'' bestseller lists, and was a Barnes & Noble and Amazon Notable/Best book. ''In Harm’s Way'' was a finalist for the WH Smith Award in the UK, and the Great Lakes Book Festival Best Book Award, and was chosen as a ''New York Review of Book'' “Best Books In Print,” a ''Publishers Weekly'' “Notable Book,” and a Michigan Notable Book of the Year. ''In Harm's Way'' also won the 2017 Audie Awards in the history/biography category from the Audio Publisher's Association. ''In Harm’s Way'' is also included in the US Navy’s required “core values” reading list for naval officers, and is regularly used in highs schools throughout the country as part of the history curriculum. ''In Harm’s Way'' has also been chosen by book clubs as part of “Community Reads” programs, appealing to a wide range of readers, men, women, and young adults. In July 2001, the US Department of Navy, joining with the US Congress, exonerated the ship’s court-martialed captain, Charles Butler McVay. This was a historic reversal of fortune for the survivors of the worst disaster at sea in US naval history. ''In Harm’s Way'' was credited by those close to the story with helping in this exoneration. The Series' first guests were father-and-son authors
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and Peter Leonard. Proceeds from the Series benefit a scholarship fund for high school students with an interest in pursuing college creative writing. Since 2009, the Series has hosted nearly 150 authors, journalists, screenwriters, poets, and thinkers, including
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,
Mary Karr Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir '' The Liars' Club''. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracus ...
, Mario Batali, Michael Sandel, Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), Chip Johannessen (Homeland), Janet Leahy and Lisa Albert (Mad Men), Harlan Coben, George Packer, Colum McCann, Lee Child, Lucy Kalanithi, David Sedaris, Sebastian Junger, Michael Paterniti, Anna Quindlen,
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, Jodi Picoult, Ann Patchett, and Margaret Atwood. NWS is considered by writers, editors, and readers to be one of the United States’ “top-tier book events.” As a non-profit, the National Writers Series annually awards scholarships to college-bound students interested in writing. Stanton also founded a scholarship fund devoted to the educations of families of USS ''Indianapolis'' survivors.


Personal life

Stanton lives with his wife, Anne Stanton, and their three children, in Michigan where he co-founded the National Writers Series, a year-round book festival featuring great conversations with America’s best storytellers; and Front Street Writers, a free, for-credit writing workshop for public high school students.


Books

* ''In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors'', Henry Holt, 2001 () * ''Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan'', Scribner, 2009 () * ''The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War'', Scribner, 2017 ()


References


External links


Doug Stanton official website
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* ttp://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/doug-stanton-horse-soldiers/ Interviewon ''Horse Soldiers'' at the
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Podcast interview
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