Maurice F. Stanley

Background

Maurice F. Stanley was born on January 22, 1945, in Newport, Tennessee, United States. He is the son of Claude L. and Louise J. Stanley.

Education

Maurice Stanley began his studies at North Carolina State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1967. Then he obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1973 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976, both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Career

Maurice Stanley is a writer who has made a teaching career in the field of philosophy. He was a lecturer in the philosophy and religion department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 1990 till 2007. He was also a visiting scholar at various public libraries in North Carolina.

His best-known novel is The Legend of Nance Dude originally published in 1991 and based on legends of his family roots in mountainous Heywood County, North Carolina. But in the book, he tackled other topics, too. It was adapted as a play and performed at public libraries throughout North Carolina.

Sorrows End (2009), which might be called a non-fiction novel, followed one of his ancestors, who rode with Jesse James and was involved in one of the largest prison escapes in Tennessee history. Midwinter (2008) retold the mountain legend of Frankie Silver, hanged for her husband's murder, while Sweet Marie (2016) recreated the world of Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans. Stanley's The Lights of Home and Other Stories is a collection of twelve stories, some of which are autobiographical. His most recent book is Essays on Ethics and Politics (2021) written with his wife Glana Stanley.

Achievements

• Maurice Stanley is an outstanding educator known for his successful career at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. For his activity, he was the recipient of grants from the North Carolina Humanities Council. He also became famous as the author whose books received wide acclaim.

Works

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  • Logic and Controversy

    (This book brings the traditional material of introductory...)

    2002
  • Muddles: Especially in U.S. Politics

    (Muddles is a handbook of logical analysis, meant to be us...)

    2015
  • God, Hope, and Freedom: Arguments Against Contemporary Atheism

    (Is there a God? Do we have souls? Are some actions right ...)

    2010
  • Sweet Marie

    (Sweet Marie is a novel about the most beautiful and myste...)

    2016
  • The Dusty Road: Problems and Mysteries of Philosophy

    (The Dusty Road: Problems and Mysteries of Philosophy pres...)

    2013
  • The Legend of Nance Dude

    (One cold February morning in 1913, a 64-year-old woman kn...)

    1991
  • Equations

    (The book Equations applies Wittgenstein's meaning-as-use ...)

    2020
  • The Devil Woman

    (Harry Lester, a private detective in Wilmington, NC, is h...)

    2019
  • Sweet Jesus: Wycliffe's Gospel of Matthew

    (This is a study and commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, ...)

    2020
  • At the Food Court

    (At the Food Court is a dark fantasy about Satan taking ov...)

    2018
  • The Foundations of the Earth: Wisdom and Solace from Wycliffe's Book of Job

    (The Foundations of the Earth is wisdom and comfort from t...)

    2020
  • Buckhorn Tavern Christmas 1861

    (This is a monologue about the Frankie Silver murder which...)

    2017
  • Philosophy and Religion

    (The author of this work applies Wittgenstein's Meaning-as...)

    2020
  • The Crystal Palace

    (The Crystal Palace is a new proof of God as Big Bang, bas...)

    2020
  • Essays on Ethics and Politics

    (In this book, the authors apply Wittgenstein to Aristotle...)

    2021
  • Midwinter: A Novel of the Frankie Silver Murder

    (Midwinter is based on a true crime that happened near Chr...)

    2017
  • The Lights of Home and Other Stories

    (There are twelve stories in this collection. Some happen ...)

    2017
  • Contexts: Applications of Wittgenstein's Definition of Meaning-as-Use 2018
  • The Noise of the Rain and Other Stories 2018

Views

In his fiction, Maurice Stanley was influenced by Hemingway and E. L. Doctorow. Also, he highly regards Leo Tolstoy. In nonfiction, he admires Josiah Royce and mathematics problems books, for example, work by Geoffrey Mott-Smith. He writes in restaurants, as Jean-Paul Sartre did, often very late at night.

Quotations: "Since childhood, I have loved books. They are a contribution to the world and, if they are any good, they are a way to conquer death."

Membership

Maurice Stanley is a member of the American Philosophical Association and Bradley Society.

Interests

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Josiah Royce

• Writers

  Ernest Hemingway, E. L. Doctorow, Leo Tolstoy

Connections

Maurice Stanley married Glana Hooper on December 24, 1968.

Father:

Claude L. Stanley

Mother:

Louise J. Stanley

Wife:

Glana Hooper

References

• Maurice Stanley's Twitter