|
List Of Western Fiction Authors
This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre. Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres. __NOTOC__ A *Edward Abbey (1927–1989) *Andy Adams (writer), Andy Adams (1859–1935) *Rudolfo Anaya (1937–2020) B *Todhunter Ballard (1903–1980) *S. Omar Barker (1894–1985) *Rex Beach (1877–1949) *James Warner Bellah (1899–1976) *Don Bendell (born 1947) *Tom W. Blackburn (1913–1992) *William Blinn (1937–2020) *Stephen Bly (1944–2011) *Frank Bonham (1914–1988) *Allan R. Bosworth (1901–1986) *Peter Bowen (1945–2020) *B.M. Bower (1871–1940), (pseudonym of B.M. Bower, Bertha "Muzzy" Sinclair) *Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) *Max Brand (1892–1944), (pseudonym of Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust) *Michael Newton (author), Lyle Brandt (1951–2021), (pseudonym of Michael Newton (author), Michael Newton) *Peter Brandvold, (pseudonym, Frank Leslie) *Matt Braun (born 1932) *Dee Brown (novelist), Dee Brown (1908–2002) *An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authors
An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created''." Typically, the first owner of a copyright is the person who created the work, i.e. the author. If more than one person created the work (i.e., multiple authors), then a case of joint authorship takes place. The copyright laws are have minor differences in various jurisdictions across the United States. The United States Copyright Office, for example, defines copyright as "a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to authors of 'original works of authorship.'" Legal significance of authorship Holding the title of "author" over any "literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, rcertain other intellectual works" gives rights to this person, the owner of the copyright, especially t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Newton (author)
Michael Newton (September 16, 1951 – September 6, 2021) was an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's ''The Executioner'' book series. Biography Altogether, Newton published 357 books, which included 258 novels and 99 nonfiction books. He also published 91 nonfiction articles and 58 shorter pieces, including chapters in several best-selling true-crime anthologies. In 2017 Newton received the Lifetime Achievement Peacemaker Award from Western Fictioneers, honoring his publication of 62 western novels. Cryptozoology Newton's ''Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology'' won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006. The book features 2,744 entries on cryptozoology with a glossary and lengthy bibliography. It was positively reviewed in ''The Quarterly Review of Biology'' as enjoyable reading and an important resource on the topic. Bibliography The Executioner * #--: ''The Executioner's War Book'' (with Don Pendleton) * #29: ''Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Coburn
Walter John Coburn (October 23, 1889 – May 1971) was an American writer of Westerns. Coburn was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana Territory, the son of Robert Coburn Senior, the founder of the noted ''Circle C Ranch'' located south of Malta.John D. Flanagan, "Coburn, Walt", in ''Twentieth Century Western Writers'', edited by Geoff Sadler. St. James Press, 1991, , (pages 129-34) Coburn served in the Army aviation corps during the World War I era. He later spent time as a cowboy and a surveyor, before becoming a full-time writer in the 1920s. Western author Coburn began his career with Western stories in general fiction pulp magazines such as ''Adventure'' and '' Argosy''.Lee Server, "Coburn, Walt" in ''Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers''. Facts on File, 2002 (pp. 65-66) Later Coburn moved on to pulps specializing in Westerns, including ''Western Story Magazine'', ''Lariat Story Magazine'', ''Ace-High Western'' and ''Frontier Stories''. He often wrote for the Fiction H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Coburn
Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet. Biography Coburn was born in Melbourne in 1994 and grew up on his family's farm in Woodstock, Victoria. ''Overland Emerging poet series: Robbie Coburn'', 2 July 2023 He began writing poetry at the age of 14, influenced by the works of . Coburn has severe depression, and has struggled with and self-harm, topics frequently explored in his work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Walter Van Tilburg Clark (August 3, 1909 – November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the 'Nevada Writers Hall of Fame' in 1988, together with Robert Laxalt, Clark's mentee and Nevada's other heralded twentieth century author. Two of Clark's novels, ''The Ox-Bow Incident'' and ''The Track of the Cat,'' were made into films. As a writer, Clark taught himself to use the familiar materials of the western saga to explore the human psyche and to raise deep philosophical issues. Biography Born in East Orland, Maine, Clark grew up, graduated from Reno High School in 1926 and went to college at the University of Nevada, where his father, Walter Ernest Clark, was president of the University of Nevada. In 1933 Clark married Barbara Frances Morse and moved to Cazenovia, New York, where he taught high school English and began his fiction-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert W
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including ''O Pioneers!'', '' The Song of the Lark'', and ''My Ántonia''. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ''One of Ours'', a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Earl Carter
Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s racial segregation, segregationist speech writer, and later Western (genre), Western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-Racial segregation in the United States, segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket. Years later, under the Pseudonym, alias of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote ''The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales'' (1972), a Western novel that led to a The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was adopted into the National Film Registry, and ''The Education of Little Tree'' (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction. In 1976, following the success of ''The Rebel Outlaw'' and its film adaptation, ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'' (1976), ''The New York Times'' revealed Forre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David F
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and Lyre, harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges David and Jonathan, a notably close friendship with Jonathan (1 Samuel), Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wynford Carnegie
The Hon. David Wynford Carnegie (23 March 1871 – 27 November 1900) was an explorer and gold prospector in Western Australia. In 1896 he led an expedition from Coolgardie through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts to Halls Creek, and then back again. Early life David Carnegie was born in London on 23 March 1871, the youngest child of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk. He was educated at Charterhouse in Godalming, Surrey but dropped out without graduating, and was thereafter educated by a private tutor. He later entered the Royal Indian Engineering College, but again dropped out without completing the course. In 1892, he travelled to Ceylon to work on a tea plantation. Finding it boring, he quit after a few weeks, and set sail for Australia with his friend Lord Percy Douglas. Gold prospecting On arriving in Albany, Western Australia in September 1892, Carnegie and Douglas learned of Arthur Bayley's discovery of gold at Coolgardie, and immediately decided to leave the ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Noble Burns
Walter Noble Burns (1866–1932) was a writer of Western history and a Western fiction author. He was notable for his book, ''The Saga of Billy the Kid'' (1926). Family Born on October 24, 1866 in Lebanon, Kentucky, he was the son of Thomas E. Burns (1837–1908), a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Walter's mother, Mary Crisella Noble (1847–1871) had died when he was four years old. Then, he and his father, Thomas E. Burns had resided with his mother's parents: Lorenzo H. Noble (1819-1899) and Alice Ann Noble (1823-1899) during the 1870 & 1880 Federal Census in Marion Co., Kentucky. Noble was an attorney from Maine, who had migrated to Kentucky, and became a prominent attorney & judge. Walter married Rose Marie Hoke on 10 November 1902. Career Walter Noble Burns served with the 1st Kentucky Infantry during the Spanish–American War in 1898. In 1900, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and began a career as a journalist, literary critic and crime reporter. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian satire ''A Clockwork Orange (novel), A Clockwork Orange'' remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial A Clockwork Orange (film), film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and ''Earthly Powers''. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 TV mini-series ''Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries), Jesus of Nazareth''. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian'', and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated ''Cyrano de Bergerac (play), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
