Bio:Will Stanton

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Will Stanton spent over fifty years entertaining America with his short stories and articles that appeared in such magazines as Reader's Digest, Woman's Day, McCalls, New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, Look, New Yorker and Esquire. He became a staff writer for the Reader's Digest in the 1980s. One of his more well-known stories is "How to Tell a Democrat from a Republican", which was published in the Ladies' Home Journal in November 1962, and, later, was read into the Congressional Record.

His books are ONCE UPON A TIME IS ENOUGH, satirical analyses of seven of the more well-known fairy tales; THE GOLDEN EVENINGS OF SUMMER, a story of youth and the opportunities to make money during Prohibition; THE OLD FAMILIAR BOOBY TRAPS OF HOME, twenty-two vignettes of the dangers, frustrations and fun of having several children; and a brand new novel A LIKELY STORY, the tale of boring, predictable Warren Plowright whose life suddenly becomes very eventful and dangerous.

Will was raised in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and spent several years each living in Cambridge, Maryland, and New London, Connecticut, before settling finally with his wife, Betty, at her family home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In his spare time Will could be found planting daffodils, adding another hundred tomato plants to the one hundred-fifty Betty already planted, chopping wood or felling trees, or making igloos for his seven children. Evening entertainment often included him serenading the family on his guitar or ukulele, teaching them "On Top of Old Smoky" or "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (before Tiny Tim recorded it), or playing the gut bucket for his friends. Life, and his family, provided Will more than enough story material to make his writing career successful and his stories memorable.