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Les Standiford

About Les Standiford

Les Standiford is the author of the critically acclaimed Bringing Adam Home, Last Train to Paradise, Meet You in Hell, and Washington Burning, as well as ten novels. Recipient of the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, he is director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife and three children.

Book:

  • Desperate Sons
  • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
  • Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
  • Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
  • Raw Deal
  • Presidential Deal: A Novel

Accomplisments:

  • Recipient of the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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