Bio of stanley gordon west
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Stanley Gordon West, one of the Twin Cities’ earliest self-publishers, died Wednesday morning at a Golden Valley nursing home from complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Bio of stanley gordon west
He was 82.
West, who lived in Montana and more recently in Shakopee, worked mostly without an agent or publicist. His family estimates that he sold 100,000 books in his career.
His first novel, “Amos: To Ride a Dead Horse,” was made into a CBS Movie of the Week starring Kirk Douglas.
Readers embraced his St. Paul trilogy — “Until They Bring the Streetcars Back,” “Finding Laura Buggs” and “Growing an Inch.” Those books came out between 1997 and 2003, preceded in 1995 by an unrelated ghost story, “Sweet Shattered Dreams.”
West told the Pioneer Press in 2011 that the St.
Paul trilogy was born in 1977 when he visited Central High School and recalled his days there.
“I thought I should write a novel about my senior year and that whole