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YESTERYEAR
YESTERYEAR is a fictionalized but based-on-truth account of author Fran Striker, a 1930s contract-writer for a Buffalo, NY radio station who created The Lone Ranger. Since he was a contract employee, he doesn't get any of the credit.
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again!
But who was the man behind the creation of The Lone Ranger?
It's 1930s Buffalo, New York. The Great Depression rages, and playwright Fran Striker's job is on the line at WEBR. He must write the pilot for a new radio show but, to do so, he needs to overcome writer's block, defeat a Gypsy curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, deal with an insane, alcoholic midget, and recover stolen diamond rings belonging to an equally insane boxing champion.
Who was that masked man? Based on the real-life and often controversial story of Lone Ranger creator Fran Striker, YESTERYEAR takes us on a magical journey that led to the iconic hero's debut, a show that provided hope to Americans during the country's darkest days. Populated by characters who lived during that eraradio actor John L. Barrett, Mafioso Stefano Magaddino, former lightweight champion Jimmy Slattery, and president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Eoannou breathes new life into the immortal Lone Ranger and the man who struggled to create him, echoing the same spirit as W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, Bernard Malamud's The Natural, and Daniel Wallace's Big Fish.
YESTERYEAR has won the 2021 Eyelands Book Award for Unpublished Historical Fiction, one of the most prestigious book contests in Europe. This international literary award was judged by Greek author and playwright Gregory Papadoyiannis. Since 2018, in collaboration with Strange Days Books, the Eyelands Book Awards has been recognizing outstanding literary work from across the globe.
Stephen G. Eoannou is a first-generation Greek American writer from Buffalo, New York. He graduated from SUNY at Buffalo with a BA in Communication and went on to earn an MA in English from Miami University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. His short story collection, Muscle Cars was a Literary Awards Program Winner from SFWP. "Swimming Naked" from that collection was awarded an Honor Certificate from The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. "Slip Kid", also from Muscle Cars, was adapted for the screen and won the Best Short Screenplay Award at the 36th Starz Denver Film Festival. His debut novel Rook is based on the true story of Al Nussbaum, a bank robber who led a double life and whom J. Edgar Hoover once described as the most cunning fugitive alive.
But who was the man behind the creation of The Lone Ranger?
It's 1930s Buffalo, New York. The Great Depression rages, and playwright Fran Striker's job is on the line at WEBR. He must write the pilot for a new radio show but, to do so, he needs to overcome writer's block, defeat a Gypsy curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, deal with an insane, alcoholic midget, and recover stolen diamond rings belonging to an equally insane boxing champion.
Who was that masked man? Based on the real-life and often controversial story of Lone Ranger creator Fran Striker, YESTERYEAR takes us on a magical journey that led to the iconic hero's debut, a show that provided hope to Americans during the country's darkest days. Populated by characters who lived during that eraradio actor John L. Barrett, Mafioso Stefano Magaddino, former lightweight champion Jimmy Slattery, and president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Eoannou breathes new life into the immortal Lone Ranger and the man who struggled to create him, echoing the same spirit as W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, Bernard Malamud's The Natural, and Daniel Wallace's Big Fish.
YESTERYEAR has won the 2021 Eyelands Book Award for Unpublished Historical Fiction, one of the most prestigious book contests in Europe. This international literary award was judged by Greek author and playwright Gregory Papadoyiannis. Since 2018, in collaboration with Strange Days Books, the Eyelands Book Awards has been recognizing outstanding literary work from across the globe.
Stephen G. Eoannou is a first-generation Greek American writer from Buffalo, New York. He graduated from SUNY at Buffalo with a BA in Communication and went on to earn an MA in English from Miami University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. His short story collection, Muscle Cars was a Literary Awards Program Winner from SFWP. "Swimming Naked" from that collection was awarded an Honor Certificate from The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. "Slip Kid", also from Muscle Cars, was adapted for the screen and won the Best Short Screenplay Award at the 36th Starz Denver Film Festival. His debut novel Rook is based on the true story of Al Nussbaum, a bank robber who led a double life and whom J. Edgar Hoover once described as the most cunning fugitive alive.
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Published 2023-05-01 by Santa Fe Writer's Project |