# Jeff Sadler

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{{Short description|English writer}}
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| name = Jeff Sadler
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| pseudonym = Jeff Sadler, Geoff Sadler, Wes Calhoun÷
| birth_name = Geoffrey Willis Sadler
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|10|7}}
| birth_place = [Mansfield Woodhouse](/source/Mansfield_Woodhouse), [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire)<ref name="Bridges">{{cite web |last1=Whitehead |first1=David |title=Tying up after a great ride |url=https://blackhorsewesterns.com/bhe1/#a1 |website=Black Horse Westerns |date= March 2006 | access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|12|6|1943|10|7}}
| death_place = [Calow](/source/Calow), [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire)<ref name="Derbyshire Times">{{cite news |title=Brave writer loses fight for life |url=https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/brave-writer-loses-fight-for-life-1-460411 |access-date=19 September 2019 |work=Derbyshire Times |date=20 January 2006 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| occupation = Novelist, essayist
| alma_mater = 
| genre = [Western fiction](/source/Western_fiction)
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'''Geoffrey Willis Sadler''' (1943–2005) was an [English](/source/England) [novel](/source/novel)ist, [essay](/source/essay)ist and [editor](/source/editor), most famous for his [western](/source/western_fiction) novels published under the [pen name](/source/pen_name) '''Jeff Sadler'''.

==Life==
Geoffrey Willis Sadler was born on 7 October 1943 in [Mansfield Woodhouse](/source/Mansfield_Woodhouse), [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire). He started work as a library assistant in 1960 and worked as a librarian at [Staveley](/source/Staveley%2C_Derbyshire), [Shirebrook](/source/Shirebrook), [Bolsover](/source/Bolsover), and [Chesterfield](/source/Chesterfield%2C_Derbyshire), where he remained for nineteen years. He was a prolific writer of local history books on Shirebrook and Chesterfield, as well as an [editor](/source/editor), although the largest part of his work is made of western novels.<ref name="Derbyshire Times" />

Sadler married in 1965 and had two sons.<ref name="Bridges" /> He died in [Chesterfield](/source/Chesterfield%2C_Derbyshire) in 2005, after two years suffering from [motor neurone disease](/source/motor_neurone_disease).<ref name="Derbyshire Times" />

==Work==

===Work as editor===
Sadler as editor to the second edition of ''Twentieth Century Western Writers'', a comprehensive index listing 467 authors of western fiction.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sadler |first1=Geoff |title=Twentieth Century Western Writers |date=1992 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=9780912289984 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury0000unse_t2c3 }}</ref> In their review, ''[Library Journal](/source/Library_Journal)'' lauded the effort in adding many female names to the previous edition (such as [Jessamyn West](/source/Jessamyn_West_(writer)), [Rose Wilder Lane](/source/Rose_Wilder_Lane), and [Bess Streeter Aldrich](/source/Bess_Streeter_Aldrich)), "evidence of the contributors' stated revisionist attitude toward the history of the American Western novel".<ref>{{cite web |title=Twentieth-century Western Writers |url=http://www.bookverdict.com/details.xqy?uri=Product-8761851227445.xml |website=Book Verdict |access-date=19 September 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

===Outside the western genre===
In 1982, Sadler penned the "Justus" trilogy of novels, dealing with the life of the eponymous [slave](/source/Slavery_in_the_United_States). These novels were signed under his birth name, Geoffrey Sadler, and published by [New English Library](/source/New_English_Library).<ref name="Bridges" />

Starting in the 1990s Sadler became a prolific writer of local history books on Shirebrook and Chesterfield, such as two volumes on [local crime](/source/true_crime): ''Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Chesterfield'' and ''Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Mansfield''.<ref name="Casemate">{{cite web |title=Geoffrey Sadler |url=https://www.casematepublishers.com/author/geoffrey-sadler/ |website=Casemate Publishers |access-date=12 December 2025}}</ref>

As an essayist, Sadler wrote on poets [Ruth Fainlight](/source/Ruth_Fainlight) and [Daniel Weissbort](/source/Daniel_Weissbort), and was a contributor to ''The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century'' and ''Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers''.<ref name="Kerbel">{{cite book |last1=Kerbel |first1=Sorrel |title=The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135456078 |page=1361}}</ref><ref name="Vinson">{{cite book |last1=Vinson |first1=James |title=Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic writers |date=1982 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9781349061273 |page=897}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
===Westerns===
====As Jeff Sadler====
{{columns-list|
* ''Arizona Blood-Trail'' (1981)
* ''Sonora Lode'' (1982)
* ''Tamaulipas Guns'' (1982)
* ''Severo Siege'' (1983)
* ''Lobo Moon'' (1983)
* ''Sierra Showdown'' (1983)
* ''Throw of a Rope'' (1984)
* ''Manhunt in Chihuahua'' (1985)
* ''Return of Amarillo'' (1986)
* ''Montana Mine'' (1987)
* ''Saltillo Road'' (1987)
* ''Long Gun War'' (1988)
* ''Palomino Stud'' (1988)
* ''Ghost Town Guns'' (1990)
* ''Headed North'' (1992)
* ''Matamoros Mission'' (1993)
* ''Hangrope Journey'' (1994)
* ''Bayou Gunsmoke'' (1995)
* ''Yaqui Justice'' (1997)
* ''Soledad'' (1999)
* ''Apache Ransom'' (2001)
* ''Vulture Peak'' (2001)
* ''North From Idaho'' (2004)
* ''Yuma Breakout'' (with [B.J. Holmes](/source/B.J._Holmes)) (2008)
}}

====As Wes Calhoun====
{{columns-list|
* ''Chulo'' (1988)
* ''At Muerto Springs'' (1989)
* ''Texas Nighthawks'' (1990)
* ''Sierra Trail'' (1993)
* ''Natchez Guns'' (2000)
* ''Graveyard Ride'' (2002)
}}

===Other genres===
* ''The Lash'' (1982) (Justus #1)
* ''Bloodwater'' (1982) (Justus #2)
* ''Black Vengeance'' (1982) (Justus #3)

===Non-fiction===
{{columns-list|
* ''Queen's Park: The First Sixty Years, 1887-1947'' (with A. Snarski)(1989)
* ''Journey to Freedom'' (1990)
* ''The Rendezvous Dance Hall: A History'' (with E.I. Roberts) (1990)
* ''Shirebrook: Birth of a Colliery'' (1991)
* ''Shirebrook in Old Picture Postcards'' (1993)
* ''Shirebrook'' (1994)
* ''Shirebrook: A Second Selection'' (1995)
* ''Who Was Who: The Black & Whites'' (2000)
* ''Chesterfield History and Guide'' (2001)

====As editor====
* ''Twentieth Century Western Writers'', 2nd ed. (1991)
* ''Write First Time'' (1992)
* Ralph Batteson: ''St. Nazaire to Shepperton: A Sailor's Odyssey'' (1996)
* ''Aspects of Chesterfield'' (2002)<ref name="Encyclopedia">{{cite web |title=Sadler, Geoffrey Willis |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/sadler-geoffrey-willis |website=Writers Directory 2005 |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |accessdate=19 September 2019}}</ref> 
}}

==References==
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