John Wooley

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John Steven Wooley is an American writer, novelist, historian, lecturer, filmmaker, and radio and TV host who specializes in the movies, literature, and music of the 1930s and ‘40s as well as other pop-culture histories. He has written, co-written, or edited more than 50 books, including the 1930's-set epistolary horror trilogy The Cleansing, with Robert A. Brown; Right Down the Middle, the as-told-to biography of famed New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry, a northeastern Oklahoma boy who went on to become 1962 World Series MVP; the biography of moviemaker Wes Craven, The Man, and His Nightmares; and Shot in Oklahoma, a look at Sooner State-lensed pictures that was named Best Book on Oklahoma History for 2011 by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Read more

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