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GENE CRYER spent thirty-eight years as a journalist, including fifteen as editor and vice president of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, before retiring to pursue the passion which led him to journalism--writing. While working on his novel, he taught journalism as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, conducted editing workshops for the Florida Center for the Book and is immediate past president of The Writers’ Network of South Florida. He also is a volunteer narrator recording books and periodicals for Insight for the Blind.
Cryer worked as a reporter and editor at several Illinois newspapers before becoming the chief editorial executive of the Sun-Sentinel. During his tenure, the Sun-Sentinel doubled its circulation to more than 300,000 daily and 400,000 Sunday while other newspapers throughout the country struggled to maintain readership.
He was honored as an outstanding journalism alumnus of Southern Illinois University and served on the alumni advisory committee of the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts. He has been a Pulitzer juror, president of the Illinois AP Editors Association, the opening speaker at the 1994 World Editors Conference in Vienna and won awards as a journalist, a manager and a short story writer.
Cryer has been an active Appaloosa horse exhibitor and breeder and won a dozen National and World titles in non-pro western pleasure. He served two years as national president of the Appaloosa Pleasure Horse Association and ten years on the board of directors.

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