Giles Alfred Lutz (March 1910June 1982) was a prolific author of fiction in the
Western genre
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. Born in March 1910 in
Missouri
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, United States, Lutz for many years wrote short stories about the
American West that were published in
pulp magazines
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. His story "Get a Wild Horse Hunter", an example of his pulp fiction writing, appeared in the June 1952 edition of the magazine ''Western Novels and Short Stories''. In the mid-1950s Lutz made the transition to full-length novels, and until his death in June 1982, published numerous stories about the American West. In 1962, Lutz won the
Western Writers of America
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Golden Spur Award
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for his novel ''The Honyocker''.
Lutz wrote under several
pseudonyms during his pulp fiction career, including under the names: "James B. Chaffin," "
Wade Everett (with
Will Cook)," "Alex Hawk," "Hunter," "Hunter Ingram," "Reese Sullivan," and "Gene Thompson." Under the pseudonym "Brad Curtis," Lutz wrote steamy pulp novels in the
erotica genre. He also wrote a lot of sports fiction for the
pulp magazines
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, in titles like ''
Ace Sports'', ''
Complete Sports
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'', and ''
Football Stories''.
Bibliography
As Giles A. Lutz
Western Novels
*''Fight Or Run'' (1954)
*''The Golden Bawd'' (1956)
*''To Hell and Texas'' (1956)
*''Fury Trail'' (1957)
*''Gun the Man Down'' (1957)
*''Relentless Gun'' (1958)
*''Outcast Gun'' (1958)
*''The Homing Bullet'' (1959)
*''Law of the Trigger'' (1959)
*''The Challenger'' (1960)
*''Stranger in My Bed'' (1960)
*''The Wild Quarry'' (1961)
*''The Long Cold Wind'' (1962)
*''The Golden Land'' (1963)
*''Halfway to Hell'' (1963)
*''Killer's Trail'' (1963)
*''Range Feud'' (1963)
*''The Blind Trail'' (1964)
*''The Bleeding Land'' (1965)
*''Nemesis of Circle A'' (1965)
*''Deadly Like a .45'' (1966)
*''The Demanding Land'' (1966)
*''The Hardy Breed'' (1966)
*''The Magnificent Failure'' (1967)
*''The Trouble Borrower'' (1968)
*''The Vengeance Ghost'' (1968)
*''Wild Runs the River'' (1968)
*''The Deadly Deputy'' (1969)
*''The Honyocker'' (1969)
*''Montana Crossing'' (1970)
*''Man On the Run'' (1971)
*''The Stranger'' (1972)
*''The Unbeaten'' (1972)
*''Gun Rich'' (1973)
*''The Outsider'' (1973)
*''Lonely Ride'' (1973)
*''Blood Feud'' (1973)
*''The Grudge'' (1974)
*''The Offenders'' (1974)
*''Reprisal!'' (1974)
*''The Black Day'' (1974)
*''Stagecoach to Hell'' (1975)
*''My Brothers Keeper'' (1975)
*''The Stubborn Breed'' (1975)
*''A Drifting Man'' (1976)
*''Night of the Cattlemen'' (1976)
*''The Way Homeward'' (1977)
*''A Time for Vengeance'' (1977)
*''Turn Around'' (1978)
*''The Ragged Edge'' (1978)
*''The Shoot Out'' (1978)
*''Lure of the Outlaw Trail'' (1979)
*''Lure of the Trail'' (1980)
*''The Trespassers'' (1980)
*''Fort Apache'' (1980)
*''Thieves' Brand'' (1981)
*''The Echo'' (1981)
*''Forked Tongue'' (1981)
*''Man Hunt'' (1981)
*''Great Railroad'' War (1982)
*''Smash the Wild Bunch'' (1982)
*''War on the Range'' (1982)
*''The Feud'' (1982)
*''The Tangled Web'' (1983)
Omnibus
*''Vengeance Ghost / Gun Rich'' (1980)
Anthologies
*''Gun Rich / Battling Buckeroos'' (1962) (with Tom West)
As Brad Curtis
Erotic Novels
*''Man Trap'' (1963)
*''For Services Rendered'' (1964)
*''Man-Tamer'' (1964)
*''Private Property'' (1964)
*''The Golden Greed'' (1965)
*''The Love Goddess'' (1965)
*''Night Shift'' (1965)
*''A Female Female'' (1966)
*''Jody'' (1966)
*''Live and Let Live'' (1966)
*''Pleasure Play'' (1967)
External links
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20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
Western (genre) writers
Writers from Missouri
Novelists from Missouri
1910 births
1982 deaths
Lutz, Giles, A.
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers