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G. Clifton Wisler (1950–2006)

Autor(a) de Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer

68 Works 1,560 Membros 12 Críticas

About the Author

Author G. Clifton Wisler was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He has written over 60 books, many of which are historical fiction works for young adults. He currently lives in Plano, Texas. (Bowker Author Biography)

Séries

Obras por G. Clifton Wisler

Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer (1995) 395 exemplares
Red Cap (1991) 282 exemplares
Thunder on the Tennessee (1983) 131 exemplares
Jericho's Journey (1993) 128 exemplares
Caleb's Choice (1996) 94 exemplares
The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg (1997) 54 exemplares
Kings Mountain (2002) 42 exemplares
The Raid (1737) 36 exemplares
Mustang Flats (1997) 25 exemplares
Run the Blockade (2000) 24 exemplares
The Mind Trap (1990) 13 exemplares
Lakota (1989) 13 exemplares
Winter of the Wolf (1981) 11 exemplares
The Wetherbys (1992) 9 exemplares
Piper's Ferry (1990) 9 exemplares
The seer (1989) 9 exemplares
Under the Black Hills (1999) 8 exemplares
My Brother, the Wind (1979) 7 exemplares
Thompson's Mountain (1987) 7 exemplares
Buffalo Moon (1984) 7 exemplares
A Special Gift (1983) 7 exemplares
The Antrian messenger (1986) 6 exemplares
The Weeping Moon (1995) 6 exemplares
The Medicine Trail (1991) 6 exemplares
Dreaming Wolf (Medicine Trail) (1992) 6 exemplares
The Trident Brand (1982) 6 exemplares
North of Esperanza (1991) 6 exemplares
Purgatory (1986) 6 exemplares
Texas Brazos (1987) 6 exemplares
A cry of angry thunder (1980) 5 exemplares
Blood Mesa (1991) 5 exemplares
Wolf's Tooth (1987) 5 exemplares
Spirit Warrior (1986) 5 exemplares
Illinois Prescott (1987) 5 exemplares
Comanche Summer (Zebra Books) (1987) 4 exemplares
Esmeralda (1989) 4 exemplares
The Shawnee Trail (1993) 4 exemplares
High Plains Rider (1986) 4 exemplares
Palo Pinto (Texas Brazos) (1987) 4 exemplares
Massacre at Powder River (1997) 4 exemplares
Antelope Springs (1986) 3 exemplares
West of the Cimarron (1985) 3 exemplares
Wayward Trail #5 (1987) 3 exemplares
The Return of Caulfield Blake (1987) 3 exemplares
Fortune Bend (Texas Brazos) (1987) 3 exemplares
Baron of the Brazos (1992) 2 exemplares
Warrior's Road (1994) 2 exemplares
Prescott's Law (Prescott, 2) (1990) 2 exemplares
Abrego Canyon (1987) 2 exemplares
Clear Fork (1990) 2 exemplares
Ross's Gap (1988) 2 exemplares
South Pass Ambush (1988) 2 exemplares
Sweetwater Flats (1988) 1 exemplar
Avery's law (1988) 1 exemplar
Prescott's Challenge (1990) 1 exemplar
Starr's Showdown (1986) 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Wisler, Gary Clifton
Data de nascimento
1950-05-15
Data de falecimento
2006-04-07
Localização do túmulo
Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Causa da morte
heart attack
Locais de residência
Plano, Texas, USA
Educação
University of North Texas
Ocupações
teacher
Organizações
Boy Scouts of America
Western Writers of America
Author's Guild
Ridgewood Park United Methodist Church
Prémios e menções honrosas
Spur Award for Best Juvenile, Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel

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[excerpted from Dallas Morning News online obituary]
Wisler attended Hillcrest High School, where he wrote sports and editorials for the Hillcrest Hurricane. Wisler took that interest to Southern Methodist University. A journalism major who served four years on the sports staff of the SMU Daily Campus, he worked part time his senior year for the Dallas Morning News. After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in journalism, Wisler taught journalism and sponsored the school newspaper and yearbook at Denton High School the following year. He then returned to SMU, where he received his Master of Arts in English and Education.

Wisler taught English and served as publications advisor at Ben Jackson Middle School in Garland, Texas. Years of sharing stories led his students to encourage him to attempt his first novel. Doubleday published that book, My Brother the Wind.

Wisler left the classroom in order to devote all his time to writing. Except for a brief return to teaching in 1986 at Bowman Middle School in Plano, Texas, his primary focus became writing and speaking to school, educational, and literary groups.

Wisler published 73 books (over 2 million copies published in 5 different languages), Wisler also wrote over 25 short stories and articles for Boy's Life magazine. He was nominated for several Book Awards, a finalist for the Western Writers of America "Spur Award" 8 times, winning twice. In 2001 the International Reading Association awarded him the Paul A. Witty Prize for Best Juvenile Short Story for "The Orange Armband".

Membros

Críticas

OK short novel on two boys dealing with Comanches who killed their parents and two other brothers in Texas.
 
Assinalado
kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
Good children's history book set during the Revolutionary War that features South Carolina/North Carolina locations.
 
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Shofbrook | 1 outra crítica | Nov 6, 2020 |
The book presented the idea of how the Old West has evolve in culture and tradition.
 
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m.arredondo | Apr 30, 2019 |
Caleb is a 13 year old privileged boy in Texas going to a nice private academy. When his father falls on hard times and everything is taken away, he is sent to live with relatives for a while. First with a snooty aunt, and then with a hard-working grandmother who runs an inn. There he befriends Edith, an older cousin who he has never met, and Michah, a ridiculously superstitious hired hand about his age.

When Caleb nearly drowns in a flash flood, he is saved by an escaped slave, and if forced to question his own attitudes towards slaves and slavery.

The second half of the book is fairly good, once it gets to the point of the story. There doesn't seem to be any reason for Caleb to have grown up in a wealthy home and school, and indeed after the first chapter, he never behaves as though he did. The short stay with the stuffy aunt is completely irrelevant to the story, as is the seemingly endless chatter about Michah's infinite superstitions.
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Assinalado
fingerpost | Mar 9, 2018 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
68
Membros
1,560
Popularidade
#16,524
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
12
ISBN
158

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