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American novelist
John Reynolds Gardiner
(December 6, 1944 ? March 4, 2006) was an American writer best known for writing the book
Stone Fox
.
Personal life
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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.
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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 a movie, but a producer told him to publish it into a novel.
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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
.
Works
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- Novels
- Filmography
- Stone Fox
(1987 TV film) (book)
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