Jim Stovall is an American

United States

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 writer

Writer

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 best known for his bestselling novel

Novel

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 The Ultimate Gift. The book was made into the movie The Ultimate Gift

The Ultimate Gift

The Ultimate Gift is a film based on author Jim Stovall's bestselling novel released on March 9, 2007 in 816 theaters in the USA. The film was not well attended in the USA and produced low box office receipts, though DVD sales were quite high in relation to its theatrical receipts.-Plot:When his...

, distributed by 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

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. The Ultimate Gift has a sequel out called The Ultimate Life.

He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University , based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States, is an interdenominational, Charismatic Christian, comprehensive university with an enrollment of about 3,790 students from 49 U.S. states along with a significant number of international students from 70 countries...

. On May 3, 2008, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from ORU for his work with the disabled.

Stovall is blind

Blindness

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 and is an advocate

Disability rights movement

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 on behalf of people with blindness. He advocated for the blind by making television and movies accessible to the blind through his work as President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network

Narrative Television Network

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In the book, Forbes Great Success Stories: Twelve Tales of Victory Wrested from Defeat (Hardcover)
by Alan Farnham, Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.

Steve Forbes

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, president and CEO of Forbes magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the most extraordinary men of our era.”.