Leon C. Standifer

Leon Midas Calmet Standifer, Jr. (April 24, 1925 - November 8, 2016) was an American soldier, novelist, and professor. He was the son of Leonidas Calmet and Emma (Moore) Standifer. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II as a scout in the infantry from 1943 to 1946 and he received Combat Infantryman Badge and the Purple Heart. On August 17, 1957, he married Marie Scott, who is an archeobotanist. He received his education at Mississippi State University, (B.S. and M.S.) and the University of Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin–Madison), where he received a Ph.D. in 1959. He taught at Louisiana State University as a professor of horticulture from 1961 to 1990 (professor emeritus, 1990).

Works

Not in Vain: A Rifleman Remembers World War II (1992), memoir

Binding up the Wounds: An American Soldier in Occupied Germany, 1945-1946 (1997), memoir Gardening in the Humid South (2002), with Edmund N. O'Rourke

References

1925 births

2016 deaths

20th-century American novelists

21st-century American novelists

American male novelists

Novelists from Mississippi

People from Gulfport, Mississippi

Mississippi State University alumni

University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni

Louisiana State University faculty

20th-century American male writers

21st-century American male writers

Novelists from Louisiana

United States Army personnel of World War II