Jack Miles Bickham (September 2, 1930 – July 25, 1997) was an American author who wrote 75 published novels, of which two were made into movies, The Apple Dumpling Gang and Baker's Hawk .
4-517: The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham , about a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush . They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold the children have found. In 1975 Disney made a film based on the book . The name of the gang refers to the American dessert . Jack Bickham Jack Bickham
8-487: The craft of fiction . Two of his novels were made into motion pictures: The Apple Dumpling Gang , published in 1971 and filmed in 1975, and Baker's Hawk , published in 1974 and filmed in 1976. Two of his books have been reprinted by Reader's Digest Condensed Books and two have been Detective Book Club selections. He was the 1998 winner of the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award ( S.E. Hinton
12-526: The university can bestow for teaching excellence. He died at Norman Regional Hospital following a lengthy battle with lymphoma . Jack M. Bickham wrote over 75 published novels, some under just his first and middle name, John Miles, as well as the thirteen books of the Wildcat O'Shea western series under the name Jeff Clinton, six espionage novels under his own name featuring professional tennis player and part-time CIA Agent Brad Smith, and six instructional books on
16-558: Was born September 2, 1930, in Columbus, Ohio . He was an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma 's H.H. Herbert School of Journalism in Norman, Oklahoma , from 1969 to 1972, associate professor from 1972 to 1979, and full professor in 1979. He directed the annual short course on professional writing from 1973 to 1990. Bickham received the rank of David Ross Boyd Professor, the highest honor
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