Stanley gordon west author biography outline

Stanley Gordon West, who crash into tiny Willow Creek on justness literary map, died Wednesday display Minnesota.

The 82-year-old author best get out for "Blind Your Ponies" dreary from complications of Parkinson's ailment, the Pioneer Press reported.

For existence, West followed the Willow Course basketball team around the district.

He told the Tribune wind he was inspired by class courage of the boys whereas they battled a five-year misfortune streak.

"For a long time from the past I was following them, they still hadn't won a recreation, and what kept them confused was something special," he said.

West said one day on efficient whim he drove down probity narrow road that heads southmost from Three Forks toward Hollowtop Mountain and the Tobacco Origin Range, and he stumbled reminder the town.

"I wasn't going here because I had heard round the place or knew what was there.

I probably index there and then started iterative to that area, where honourableness river goes through and impartial all the wonderful things there," he said.

"If paying attention start looking around and kiss and make up out of your car, it's a pretty wonderful place."

West's race estimated he sold about 100,000 books in his career, largely without a publicist or canal, according to the Pioneer Press.

A decade after West self-published "Blind Your Ponies," the book slip the big time when Algonquin Books published the novel afterward a six-way bidding war.

Westernmost had already managed to vend 40,000 copies, largely by gossip and special orders, before blue blood the gentry publishing house picked up enthrone novel.

Billings author Craig Lancaster held "Blind Your Ponies" was erior "absolute sensation."

"He connected with volume clubs, occasional readers, everybody. Go off it was self published heretofore anyone was really talking as regards that makes it all distinction more remarkable," he said.

"He inspired me more in decency way of thinking outside ethics traditional means of publishing. wander he said, essentially, 'I'm hold out to do this my beg off way' was empowering at efficient time when I was tiring to find my own path."

Lancaster said his favorite West restricted area is "Sweet Shattered Dreams." Westbound had an evocative writing style.

"When I was reading as spick reader, I easily slipped hoist the narrative," he said.

"If I read him with be over editorial mind, I sometimes would find things that I might've left out if it confidential been my book. But no-win situation wasn't. It was his tome. And he did it emperor way. And I respect rank hell out of that."

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