Zane Grey

Zane Grey

male, deceased (1939)
Film studio executive The Internet Movie Database old west dentist Western writer movie mogul
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... More
Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour

male, deceased (1988)
Congressional Gold Medal recipient novelist Autodidact Louis Dearborn LaMoore French-Canadian California writer … Western 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... More
Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton

male, 82 years old
University of Texas from Texas novelist Texas writer Western writer 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... More
Max Brand

Max Brand

male, deceased (1944)
Destry Argosy Magazine Pulp fiction writer Destry Rides Again 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.... More
Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry

male, 72 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 … Western writer
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer... More
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

male, 75 years old
the road post-apocalyptic New Mexico writer Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner writer Irish-American … Western writer
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the... More
Terry C. Johnston

Terry C. Johnston

male, deceased (2001)
novelist Indian western colon cancer Western writer 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... More
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 writer
Owen Wister was an American writer of western novels. Owen Wister was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... More
Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard

male, 83 years old
Louisiana writer writing Wiktionary novelist American crime General Motors Corporation … Western writer
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist and screenwriter.
Matt Braun

Matt Braun

male, 76 years old
novelist Western writer American Oklahoma writer