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Charles Neider!  What a great author to bring up.  I loved the two novellas
he published under the name* The Grotto Berg.*  He was a writer of great
imagination.
Thanks for the reminder - Kay Frost

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Kent Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]>
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> I can add another name to this list: Charles Neider wrote several novels,=
>
> the best known of which is probably THE AUTHENTIC DEATH OF HENDRY JONES
> (yes, "Hendry," not "Henry"). It is a western novel that was made into th=
> e
> Marlon Brando film ONE-EYED JACKS. In addition to his many Mark Twain boo=
> ks,
> Neider also wrote extensively about Antarctica. Another of his novels,
> OVERFLIGHT, is about a man who is the sole survivor of an airline crash i=
> nto
> Mt. Erebus. When he later returns to the mountain to scatter ashes of the=
>
> crash victims, the helicopter carrying him crashes, beginning an epic
> struggle for survival.
>

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