Roger Avary

Roger Avary

male, 44 years old
BAFTA winner, Screenwriter, Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner, Canadian expatriate writer in the United States, American, motion picture director…Killing Zoe writer, Silent Hill writer, writer, Reservoir Dogs writer, True Romance writer
Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter.
Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

male, deceased (1936)
death by firearm in the United States, suicide by firearm in the United States, Mythopoeic writer, American historical novelist, Howard Payne University alumni, Cthulhu Mythos writer…fantasy writer, Texas writer, Short story writer, Pulp Magazine, Horror fiction
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 - June 11 1936) was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western,...
Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson

male, deceased (1977)
The guy was absolutely over the top, Stop, From Fort Worth, Texas, hardboiled, crime fiction, paperback book…pulp, Pulp Fiction, Crime fiction writer, Pulp Magazine, Pulpfictionwriter
James Myers Thompson (Born September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory - Died April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer...
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

male, deceased (1959)
Old Alleynian, philip marlowe, Irish-American, mystery writer, English American, California writer…crime fiction, writer, Crime fiction writer, Pulpfictionwriter
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959) was an author of crime stories and novels. His influence on modern crime fiction has...
Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett

male, deceased (1961)
American military personnel of World War II, World War I, American military, private investigator, detective novel, hardboiled…Pulpfictionwriter, Maryland writer, mystery writer, Crime fiction writer, Detective fiction
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894-January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring...
Hugh B. Cave

Hugh B. Cave

male, deceased (2004)
Non-fiction writer, Horror writer, Pulp Fiction, English, nonfiction, From chester…Pulp Magazine, Pulpfictionwriter
Hugh Barnett Cave was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres.
Max Brand

Max Brand

male, deceased (1944)
Destry, Argosy Magazine, Pulpfictionwriter, Destry Rides Again, Frederick Schiller Faust, Western fiction…Pulp Magazine, Short story writer, Western writer
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns....
Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley

male
Argosy, the mark of zorro, silent movie, The Curse of Capistrano, The Police Gazette, the Crimson Clown…Pulpfictionwriter, Pulp Magazine, Pulp Fiction
Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 Ottawa,Illinois- November 23. 1958) was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, and numerous...
John D. MacDonald

John D. MacDonald

male, deceased (1986)
Syracuse University, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Detective fiction, science fiction writer, mystery writer…Florida writer, Western writer, Crime fiction writer, Mystery Writer of America, Pulpfictionwriter
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 - December 28, 1986), writing as John D. MacDonald, was an American writer best known for his series of...
Lester Dent

Lester Dent

male, deceased (1959)
death by myocardial infarction, Pulpfictionwriter, house name, Doc Savage, Pulp Magazine, superhuman…Missouri writer, Pulp Fiction
Lester Dent (October 12, 1904 - March 11, 1959) was a prolific pulp fiction author of numerous stories, best known as the main author of the series...