Larry Stanfel

Larry Stanfel, a professor emeritus at the University of Alabama, earned his PhD from Northwestern University. Twice the winner of competitive postdoctoral fellowships for research abroad, he has been listed in Who's Who in America and was selected for a number of honorary fraternities. He has worked frequently as a consultant to government and private businesses and has been an invited speaker around the world. Presently he and his artist wife, Jane, live on a small ranch in Montana. He has...See more

Larry Stanfel, a professor emeritus at the University of Alabama, earned his PhD from Northwestern University. Twice the winner of competitive postdoctoral fellowships for research abroad, he has been listed in Who's Who in America and was selected for a number of honorary fraternities. He has worked frequently as a consultant to government and private businesses and has been an invited speaker around the world. Presently he and his artist wife, Jane, live on a small ranch in Montana. He has published three previous books and around eighty articles, most of them peer-reviewed, and several of his poems and stories have appeared in web journals, including a prize-winning story in Enchanted Conversation . He also writes novels, plays, and song lyrics. Stanfel spent twelve years exhaustively researching the lives and work of Helen West Heller and her husband, Roger, and is considered the world's leading authority on the pair. His book Uncompromising Souls is a biography of the artist and her eccentric husband. See less