Frederick J. Chiaventone

Frederick J. Chiaventone – is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and commentator. His novel of Red Cloud’s War “Moon of Bitter Cold” won the coveted Western Heritage Award while his novel of the Little Bighorn “A Road We Do Not Know” won the Ambassador William F. Colby Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer.

Fred’s articles appear regularly in the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Armchair General, American Heritage, and Cowboys & Indians.

A retired Army officer, Fred taught psychological operations, counter terrorism operations and counter insurgency operations at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College and was contributing editor for the Oxford Companion to American Military History and for Greenwood Press’ Historical Dictionary of the United States Army.

An advisor to director Ang Lee for his film Ride With The Devil (Universal Pictures) Fred has also appeared on PBS' The American Experience and on The History Channel.

Chiaventone lives in the small town from where Ben ’Stagecoach King’ Holladay ran his Overland Stage Empire and a young Buffalo Bill Cody clerked in his uncle’s store. During the Civil War this area was a hotbed of activity for the guerrilla bands led by William Quantrill and ‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson.

Chiaventone's more recent articles include an appraisal of the work of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in December 08 Armed Forces Journal, an article about the Silver Anniversary of the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada (Cowboys & Indians Magazine - Jan 2009); and an essay on Red Cloud's War in the April 2009 Cowboys & Indians Magazine. He has also been working on some television productions to include a history of the Pony Express. He also contributed a chapter to the book Custer and His Times: Volume 5 published in 2008.

Fred was recently contacted by the Executive Producers of "Lonesome Dove" who are in the process of developing "Moon of Bitter Cold" as a mini-series for television.

Direct queries may be addressed to Fred directly at chiaventone@earthlink.net or to his representatives in Los Angeles; Mr. Michael Prevett at The Gotham Group (310) 285-0001; or Mr. Alan Nevins at Renaissance Literary & Talent in Beverly Hills, CA (310) 860-8053.

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