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Jeff Guinn
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Jeff Guinn

Jeff Guinn is the author of Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde, which was a finalist for an Edgar Award in 2010. An award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction, he was books editor and senior writer for the Fort... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. If you're bored, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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My life in 8 words: "I'm always eager to learn more about everything."
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The Last Gunfight will be released on May 15, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 05, 2012
May 24, 2011
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May 18, 2011
The Last Gunfight will be released on May 17, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
May 17, 2011
The Last Gunfight is now available in Hardcover, eBook
May 17, 2011
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Prologue from The Last Gunfight
May 12, 2011
Go Down Together is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 09, 2010
Go Down Together will be released on March 09, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Mar 09, 2010
Go Down Together is now available in Hardcover
Mar 10, 2009
Go Down Together is now available in eBook
Mar 10, 2009
Go Down Together will be released on March 10, 2009 in eBook
Mar 10, 2009
Go Down Together will be released on March 10, 2009 in Hardcover
Mar 10, 2009
Go Down Together is now available in Hardcover
Mar 10, 2009
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Jeff Guinn Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. If you're bored, you have no one to blame but yourself. Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you? A. Integrity, energy, imagination. Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. Truthfully, I'm envious of Baloo the Bear in Disney's Jungle Book. I always thought he had everything just where he wanted it to be. Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be? A. Mexican food. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Playing tennis, eating Mexican food, and managing my fantasy baseball team. Learn more about Jeff Guinn

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Individual.com, January 29, 2012
...to hear them again, Elmore Leonard, Diana Gabaldon, Pete Dexter, T. Jefferson Parker, Alice Hoffman, Terry Brooks and Jeff Guinn are among the authors making a return visit to the book festival. 3 New and expanded exhibits and programs. Science City, the...
Examiner.com, January 20, 2012
...Last Man Out, There Is No Me Without You, and No Biking in the House Without a Helmet Jeff Guinn - Author of Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, The Sixteenth Minute: Life in the Aftermath of Fame, Our Land Before We Die: The...
Poten & Partners, December 11, 2011
...Mary Ann Gwinn "The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral" by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster). For author Jeff Guinn, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was about much more than another macho misunderstanding elevated to lethal...
Cowboys & Indians, December 8, 2011
...What really happened in Tombstone Jeff Guinn The Last Gunfight separates the “misunderstandings, exaggerations, and outright lies” from what really happened in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26, 1881. The infamous moment that...
KansasCity.com, December 2, 2011
...of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral — and How It Changed the American West,” by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster). Historian Guinn examines why Wyatt Earp’s and Doc Holliday’s names remain familiar and how “Earp mythology may be the best proof of how...
Zimbio, November 12, 2011
...meet Mrs. Claus? Who named the reindeer? We’ve all asked these questions and a million more, and Jeff Guinn uses a wonderful mix of scholarship, fantasy, folklore, and faith to answer them all. According to this “authoritative” autobiography, St....
MySanAntonio, November 8, 2011
...a famous movie line, as two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough asserts in [...] Fort Worth writer Jeff Guinn, last seen excavating the facts on Bonnie and Clyde, tells, through new research, the real story of that fateful day in...
The Global Sociology Blog, August 12, 2011
...I read Jeff Guinn’s The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral – And How It Changed the American West because of Lance Mannion’s review...
History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & U, August 5, 2011
...In an early Christmas present for Earp enthusiasts, Santa Claus author Jeff Guinn tackles the O.K. Corral...
The Playlist, July 25, 2011
...he’s adding another project to his growing slate of films, with an Oscar nominated writer in tow. Jeff Guinn‘s non-fiction book “Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde,” will be adapted for the big screen by “Up In The...
The Playlist, July 25, 2011
...he’s adding another project to his growing slate of film, with an Oscar nominated writer in tow. Jeff Guinn‘s non-fiction book “Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde,” will be adapted for the big screen by “Up In The...
Deadline.com, July 25, 2011
...to fund development on Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, a book by Jeff Guinn published last year by Simon & Schuster. The book paints a less romanticized version than the 1967 Arthur Penn-directed film that starred Warren...