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John Richard Stephens

John Richard Stephens, Author
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Author, Editor, Photographer,
Graphic Designer, Book Designer, and Ebook Creator

Most of John's twenty-five books have been repeatedly published in various editions by a number of the world's top publishers, which is why you'll see several different covers for many of the books listed below. His books include Mark Twain's Hawaiʻi, Commanding the Storm, Weird History 101, Wyatt Earp Speaks, Voodoo, Adventure!, The King of the Cats, Life Along the Shore, and Life Under the Sea.

Before becoming an author, John gained experience in a wide variety of occupations ranging from work as a psychiatric counselor in two hospitals and three mental health facilities to being an intelligence officer and squadron commander in the U.S. Air Force.

His books have been selections of the Preferred Choice Book Club, the Quality Paperback Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Civil War Trust. His magazine articles have been published as far away as India and Singapore, and his books have been translated into Japanese and Finnish.

John also has the distinguished honor of being quoted around the world in lists of notable quotations and in several books next to such luminaries as Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Lord Byron, and Franz Kafka.

Books

  • Life Along the Shore
  • Life
                Under the Sea title=
  • Mark Twain's
                Hawai‘i
  • The
                Literary Guidebook to Hawai‘i
  • Commanding the Storm, Lyons Press (Rowman &
                Littlefield Publishing Group), Lanham, MD, 2012,
                hardcover and ebook.
  • Commanding the Storm, Lyons Press (Rowman &
                Littlefield Publishing Group), Lanham, MD, 2012,
                hardcover and ebook.
  • Humor and the Civil War, Comedy from America's
                Darkest Hours
  • Weird
                History 101, Adams Media, Holbrook, MA (now Simon &
                Schuster), 1997, softcover.
  • Weird
                History 101, Barnes & Noble Publishing, New York
                City, 2006, hardcover.
  • Weird
                History 101, Adams Media (F+W Publications, now Simon
                & Schuster), New York City, 2009, softcover.
  • Weird
                History 101, Fern Canyon Press, 2022, ebook. Updated and
                expanded edition.
  • Wildest Lives of the Frontier
  • Wildest Lives of the Wild West
  • Wyatt
                Earp Speaks, Fern Canyon Press, 1998, hardcover and
                softcover; 2013, expanded edition, ebook.
  • Wyatt
                Earp Speaks, Fall River Press (Barnes & Noble
                Publishing), New York City, 2009 first version and 2015
                second version, both slightly shorter than the Fern
                Canyon Press editions, hardcover.
  • Gold
  • The
                Wild, Wild West
  • The
                Wild, Wild West
  • The
                Pirate Trial of Anne Bonny and Mary Read
  • Captured by Pirates, Fern Canyon Press, 1996,
                softcover.
  • Captured by Pirate, Barnes & Noble Publishing,
                New York City, 2006, hardcover.
  • Captured by Pirates, Fern Canyon Press, 2013,
                expanded edition, ebook.
  • Wyatt Earp Tells of the Gunfight Near the O.K.
                Corral
  • Wyatt Earp Tells of the Gunfight Near the O.K.
                Corral
  • Into the Mummy's Tomb, Berkley Books (Penguin
                Group, now Penguin Random House), New York City, 2001,
                softcover.
  • Into the Mummy's Tomb, Barnes & Noble
                Publishing, New York City, 2006, hardcover.
  • Vampires, Wine and Roses, Berkley Books (Penguin
                Group, now Penguin Random House), New York City, 1997,
                softcover.
  • Vampires, Wine and Roses, Metro Books (Barnes &
                Noble Publishing), New York City, 2008, hardcover.
  • Voodoo, Sterling Publishing (Barnes Noble
                Publishing), 2010, hardcover and ebook.
  • Voodoo, Fern Canyon Press, 2022, ebook.
  • Adventure
  • 
                Skeleton at the Helm
  • The Book of the Living Dead
  • The Dog
                Lover's Literary Companion
  • Mysterious Cat Stories, Carroll & Graf
                Publishers (now Avalon Publishing Group), New York City,
                1993, hardcover.
  • Mysterious Cat Stories, Galahad Books (Barnes &
                Noble Publishing), New York City, 1994, hardcover.
  • Mysterious Cat Stories, Mystisia Kissatarinoita
                Book Studio Oy, Helsinki, Finland, 1995, softcover.
  • The
                Enchanted Cat
  • The King of the Cats, Faber & Faber, Boston and
                London, 1993, hardcover and softcover. Sterling
                Publishing (Barnes & Noble Publishing), New York
                City, 2009, hardcover.
  • The King of the Cats, Retitled in Japanese as Cat
                Fairytales that Make People Happy. Soshisha, Tokyo,
                Japan, 1999, hardcover.
  • The King of the Cats, Soshisha, Tokyo, Japan, 2019,
                softcover.
  • Kitty
                LiteratureKitty Literature
  • The Hawaiʻi Bathroom Book, Mutual Publishing,
                Honolulu, Oahu, HI, 2012, softcover.
  • The Hawaiʻi Bathroom Book, Mutual Publishing,
                Honolulu, Oahu, HI, 2014, softcover.