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John Albert Gardner III (born April 9, 1979) is an American convicted double murderer, rapist, and child molester. [1] He confessed to the February 2009 rape and murder of 14-year-old Amber Dubois from Escondido, California, [2] [3] [4] and the February 2010 rape and murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King from Poway, California, after he entered a plea agreement that spared him from execution.
John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel , a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty .
But sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight on Jan. 23, 2005, just 15 days before the divorce became final, John Gardner, who drove from Mississippi, broke into her home in Anna, Texas, located ...
John A. Gardner, American physicist and developer of Gardner–Salinas braille codes; John Fentress Gardner (1912–1998), American author and educator; John J. Gardner (1845–1921), politician representing New Jersey in the House of Representatives, 1885 to 1893; John W. Gardner (1912–2002), U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare ...
D. Keith Mano praised Grendel lavishly in The New York Times Book Review, writing, "John Gardner's Grendel is myth itself: permeated with revelation, with dark instincts, with swimming, riotous universals. The special profundity of Gardner's vision or visions is so thought-fertile that it shunts even his fine poet's prose to a second importance ...
In 1979 [2] Glidrose Publications (now Ian Fleming Publications) approached Gardner and asked him to revive Ian Fleming's James Bond series of novels. [3]When hired to begin a new series of James Bond novels, author John Gardner was tasked with updating James Bond and his allies and transporting them into the 1980s.
On Moral Fiction is a collection of essays by the American novelist John Gardner published in 1978. (ISBN 0-465-05225-8) In this work, Gardner attacks what he sees as contemporary literature's lack of morality, which he calls the highest purpose of art and which he defines in the book.