Doug Stanton is an American journalist, lecturer, screenwriter, and author of New York Times bestsellersIn Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001) and Horse Soldiers (2009), which is the basis of the 2018 feature film 12 Strong.
In Harm’s Way spent more than six months on the New York Times bestseller list and became required reading on the U.S. Navy's reading list for officers. The unabridged audiobook edition of In Harm’s Way won the 2017 Audie Award in the History category.
Stanton‘s third book, The Odyssey of Echo Company,[1] was published in 2017.
Early life and education
Stanton attended Interlochen Arts Academy, Hampshire College, and received an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he graduated with coursework in both fiction and poetry workshops. Stanton has taught writing and English at the high school and college level, worked as a commercial sports fisherman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and caretaker of Robert Frost's house in Vermont.
Throughout his career, he nearly drowned in Cape Horn waters, survived a mugging by jungle revolutionaries, played basketball with George Clooney, and took an acting lesson from Harrison Ford.[2]
Stanton’s book In Harm’s Way, about the sinking of the WWII cruiser USSIndianapolis(CA-35) and the gallant fight of her crew to exonerate their court-martialed captain, was also an international bestseller (UK’s The Sunday Times).
The book has been translated into German, Japanese, Danish, Spanish, and Italian. In Harm’s Way appeared on the Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, and IndieBound bestseller lists, and was a Barnes & Noble and Amazon Notable/Best book.
In Harm’s Way was a finalist for the WH Smith Award in the UK,[5] and the Great Lakes Book Festival Best Book Award, and was chosen as a New York Review of Book “Best Books In Print,” a Publishers Weekly “Notable Book,” and a Michigan Notable Book of the Year. In Harm's Way also won the 2017 Audie Awards in the history/biography category from the Audio Publisher's Association.[6]
In Harm's Way is also included in the US Navy’s required “core values” reading list for naval officers,[7] and is regularly used in high schools throughout the country as part of the history curriculum. In Harm's Way has been chosen by several book clubs as part of “Community Reads” programs, appealing to a wide range of readers.
In July 2001, the US Department of the Navy, joining with the US Congress, exonerated the ship’s court-martialed captain, Charles Butler McVay. This was a historic reversal of fortune for the survivors of the worst disaster at sea in US naval history. In Harm’s Way was credited by those close to the story with helping in this exoneration.
NWS is considered by writers, editors, and readers to be one of the United States' “top-tier book events.”[citation needed] As a non-profit, the National Writers Series annually awards scholarships to college-bound students interested in writing.[8]
Stanton founded a scholarship fund devoted to the educations of families of USS Indianapolis survivors.
Personal life
Stanton lives with his wife, Anne Stanton, and their three children, in Traverse City, Michigan[9] where he co-founded the National Writers Series,[10] a year-round book festival featuring conversations with American storytellers; and Front Street Writers,[11] a free, for-credit writing workshop for public high school students.
Books
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, Henry Holt, 2001 ( ISBN0805066322)
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan, Scribner, 2009 ( ISBN1416580514)
The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War, Scribner, 2017 ( ISBN1476761914)
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