Zane Grey

Zane Grey

male, deceased (1939)
Film studio executive, The Internet Movie Database, old west, dentist, Westernwriter, movie mogul…Ohio writer
Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old...
Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour

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

Elmer Kelton

male, 83 years old
University of Texas, from Texas, novelist, Texas writer, Westernwriter, American
Elmer Kelton (born April 29, 1926) is an American author, known for his Westerns. He was born in Andrews County, Texas. He graduated from the...
Max Brand

Max Brand

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

Larry McMurtry

male, 73 years old
Stanford University, the electric kool-aid acid test, Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winner, North Texas State University, From Wichita Falls, Texas, Merry Pranksters…Westernwriter, Texas writer
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer...
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

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

Terry C. Johnston

male, deceased (2001)
novelist, Indian, western, colon cancer, Westernwriter, old west
Terry C. Johnston (1947-2001) was an American Western fiction author born in Kansas. As a young man, he traveled and worked various jobs, all the...
Owen Wister

Owen Wister

male, deceased (1938)
Frederick Remington, Harvard Law School alumni, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Harvard Law School, Philadelphia writer, American…western, Westernwriter, Pennsylvania writer, Wyoming writer, writer
Owen Wister was an American writer of western novels. Owen Wister was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard

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