John Reynolds Gardiner

John Reynolds Gardiner (December 6, 1944 – March 4, 2006) was an American author and engineer. He is famous for writing Stone Fox in 1980 which was later adapted to an NBC movie. He has also edited children's stories for television.

Biography

Born in Los Angeles, California, he was a rebellious boy whose teachers believed he would never get anywhere in life. He earned his master's degree from University of California, Los Angeles. He was an engineer before working on his first and best-known children's book, Stone Fox, which, at the time of his death in 2006, had sold four million copies. Always creative, in his younger years he ran Num Num Novelties, home to such originals as the aquarium tie. He lived in West Germany, El Salvador, Mexico Italy, Ireland and Idaho where he heard a local legend that inspired Stone Fox. He took a special class on screenplay and wrote Stone Fox as movie but a producer told him to publish it into a novel. Gardiner also edited children's stories for television. He lived out his final years with his wife, Gloria, in California and died of complications from pancreatitis in Anaheim, California.

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John Reynolds (U.S. politician)

John Reynolds (February 26, 1788 – May 8, 1865) was a United States politician from the state of Illinois. He was one of the original four justices of the Illinois Supreme Court, 1818–1825, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1826–1830, 1846–1848, and 1852–1854 (when he was Speaker of the House), and the 4th Illinois Governor from 1830–1834. He also represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives, 1834–1837 and 1839–1843.

Reynolds was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His father, Robert Reynolds and his mother, née Margaret Moore, were both natives of Ireland, from which country they emigrated to the United States in 1785, arriving first at Philadelphia. When Reynolds was about six months old, his parents emigrated with him to Tennessee, where many of their relatives had already located, at the base of the Copper Ridge Mountain, about 14 miles (23 km) northeast of the present city of Knoxville. After experiencing harassment from Native Americans fighting encroachment by white settlers upon their territory, the Reynolds moved into the interior of the state. They were poor, and brought up their children to habits of manual industry.

John Reynolds (ecologist)

John Reynolds is a Canadian ecologist and holder of the Tom Buell BC Leadership Chair in Salmon Conservation and Management at Simon Fraser University. He is a specialist in fish ecology and conservation, particularly Pacific salmon in the Great Bear Rainforest, as well on extinction risk in marine fishes. He is Co-Chair of marine fish committee of the COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada).

Biography

Reynolds was born in St. Thomas, ON, Canada in 1959. During his childhood he was fascinated by natural history and planned to be a biologist. As an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, he was inspired by Jim Rising and Richard Knapton to study evolutionary ecology. After finishing BSc in 1982, he did a MSc at Queen's University with Fred Cooke and completed his PhD in 1991 at the University of Toronto. For the doctorate, he researched sexual selection of Trinidadian guppies under supervision of Mart Gross first at Simon Fraser University and later at the University of Toronto. For Postdoctoral study, he moved to the University of Oxford in 1990 with a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. His second Post-doctorate was at McGill University in 1993 with Bellairs Research Institute Fellowship. His first faculty position was in 1993 at the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he worked for about twelve years. In 2005 he returned to Canada to take up the Tom Buell BC Leadership Chair at Simon Fraser University.