Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour

male, deceased (1988)
Congressional Gold Medal recipient, novelist, Autodidact, Louis Dearborn LaMoore, French-Canadian, California writer…Western writer, Westernfiction
Louis L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. He was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore of...
Max Brand

Max Brand

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

Elmore Leonard

male, 84 years old
Louisiana writer, writing, Wiktionary novelist, American, crime, General Motors Corporation…Crime fiction writer, Western writer, Westernfiction, Mystery fiction, western
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist and screenwriter.
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

male, 76 years old
the road, post-apocalyptic, New Mexico writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, writer, Irish-American…Western writer, post-apocalyptic fiction, Westernfiction, western
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the...

Ralph Compton

male, deceased (1998)
writer, usa today, from Alabama, Western writer, American, author…Westernfiction, Western Writer of America
Ralph Compton (April 11, 1934-September 16, 1998) was an American writer of western fiction. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton began...
Peter Brandvold

Peter Brandvold

male
University of North Dakota, Western writer, old west, American, North Dakota writer, University of North Dakota alumni…American fiction writer, Westernfiction
Peter Brandvold is an American western fiction author. He has written over two dozen books set in the Old West and has been hailed by many as the...
Ernest Haycox

Ernest Haycox

male, deceased (1950)
novelist, Westernfiction, University of Oregon alumni, western, Oregon writer, Western writer
Ernest James Haycox, was an American writer of Western fiction
Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman

male, 57 years old
Westernfiction, Bloody Season, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Eastern Michigan University alumni, Detective fiction, detective…Western writer
Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He writes with a manual typewriter. Estelman...
Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale

male, 58 years old
splatterpunk, Westernfiction, elvis, From Nacogdoches, Texas, Working Class, Batman The Animated Series…Horror fiction, Mystery fiction, science fiction writer, science fiction, western
Joe R. Lansdale (born October 28, 1951, Gladewater, Texas) is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many...
Lauran Paine

Lauran Paine

93 years old
from Minnesota, novelist, writer, Western writer, American, Westernfiction
Lauran Bosworth Paine (February 25, 1916, Duluth, Minnesota) is an American writer of Western fiction. Paine often wrote under the names: John...