Doug Stanton is an American journalist, lecturer, screenwriter, and author of New York Times bestsellers In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001) and Horse Soldiers (2009), which is the basis of the 2018 feature film 12 Strong.
Stanton has taught writing and English at the high school and college level, worked as a commercial sports fisherman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and caretaker of Robert Frost's house in Vermont.
Throughout his career, he nearly drowned in Cape Horn waters, survived a mugging by jungle revolutionaries, played basketball with George Clooney, and took an acting lesson from Harrison Ford.
Stanton’s book In Harm’s Way, about the sinking of the WWII cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) and the gallant fight of her crew to exonerate their court-martialed captain, was also an international bestseller (UK’s The Sunday Times).
[6] In Harm's Way is also included in the US Navy’s required “core values” reading list for naval officers,[7] and is regularly used in high schools throughout the country as part of the history curriculum.
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