Bio of author stanley gordon west books

He was West, who lived in Montana and more recently in Shakopee, worked mostly without an agent or publicist. His family estimates that he sold , books in his career.

Stanley Gordon West was born in and attended St. Paul Central High School in Minnesota.

Readers embraced his St. West told the Pioneer Press in that the St. Paul trilogy was born in when he visited Central High School and recalled his days there. One of my classmates called and asked what happened to that novel. West and his friend Doug Smith of St. Louis Park graduated in from Central, where West was senior class president. A graduate of the University of Minnesota and Luther Seminary, West recalled in his Pioneer Press interview that he fell in love with Montana in when he took a group of kids from St.

Paul to a church convention. He was also a small rancher who did carpentry, plumbing and electrical work, as well as driving heavy equipment. Games and play were important, lots of stories. We played together but also worked at chores on the ranch. Many of them became teachers because of how he had touched their lives. West began writing when he lived in Livingston, Mont.