Doug Stanton é um escritor e um fundador do Traverse City Film Festival. Ele estudou na Interlochen Arts Academy em Michigan e no Hampshire College em Massachusetts.

Autor de 'Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan" e 'New York Times bestseller In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors "