His novels featuring the character "John Deal" put him in the Miami School of crime fiction, whose progenitors are Charles Willeford[3] and John D. MacDonald, and which includes Elmore Leonard, Jeff Lindsay, Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall, Paul Levine, Edna Buchanan, and Barbara Parker.
Standiford's students have included novelists Dennis Lehane, Barbara Parker, Vicki Hendricks, Ginny Rorby, and Neil Plakcy.
According to Publishers Weekly, in 1976, while he was the chairman of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas El Paso, "Standiford gave Raymond Carver his first job ... when Carver was recovering from his infamous alcoholic crash and burn.
"[4] Standiford attended the Air Force Academy and the Columbia University School of Law, and holds a B.A.
[2] John Deal Miami crime novels[13] Other novels According to the biography on his website, "Standiford's short stories and articles have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Kansas Quarterly, Writer's Digest, Fodor's Guide, Smoke Magazine, the Key West Reader, Confrontation, Three American Literatures (Modern Language Association), Perfect Lies: A Century of Classic Golf Fiction, and Communion: Contemporary Fiction Writers Reread the Bible.