R.I.P. George Edward Stanley
Sad news landed in our e-mail box this morning.
Renowned children’s author George Edward Stanley died on February 7.
Dr. Stanley thrilled young readers for decades. He authored more than 100 books for children and young adults; and he did this after he had written more than 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistic articles in major International journals.
Dr. Stanley was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages at Cameron University. At one time or another he had taught all the Germanic and Romance languages, in addition to African and Middle-Eastern languages.
His many recognitions include Cameron’s most prestigious teaching award, The Hackler Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Cameron Alumni Association Faculty Hall of Fame. He received the Oklahoma Book Award in 2010 for his young adult novel, Night Fires.
He wrote under his own name, and under a variety of psudonyms, including M.T. Coffin for his popular Spinetingler series, and Laura Lee Hope for his Bobbsey Twins mysteries.
The George Edward Stanley Papers are housed at the University of Southern Mississippi’s de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection.
You will be missed, kind sir.
Memorials may be made to the Cameron University Foreign Languages Department.
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Comments
I had the pleasure of editing George on a chapter book series he wrote years ago and I’m so sad to hear this. He was such a lovely, generous man and will be missed.
Friend Sandy sent this tribute to me via e-mail:
“I will miss George as a personal friend and we all will miss his wonderful work for literature. One of Oklahoma’s greatest lights has gone out, surely to twinkle like this dear man’s eyes, somewhere in the vast beyond.”
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