List of Western fiction authors
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This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction
Western fiction
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L'Amour from the mid 20th century...

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Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres.


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  • Todhunter Ballard
    Todhunter Ballard
    Willis Todhunter Ballard was a Cleveland, Ohio-born American author, known for his Westerns and mystery novels.-Pseudonyms:...

     (1903–1980)
  • F. Eugene Barber (Fred Eugene Barber) (born 1931)
  • S. Omar Barker
    S. Omar Barker
    S. Omar Barker , an oft-recited cowboy poet, was born in a log cabin in New Mexico where he lived his entire life as a rancher, teacher and writer...

     (1894–1985)
  • Rex Beach
    Rex Beach
    Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.- Biography :...

     (1877–1949)
  • Don Bendell
    Don Bendell
    Don Bendell, , is an American author of 26 books, including his brand new hardcover non-fiction book TRACKS OF HOPE . . .a Memoir and the popular new historical western novel STRONGHEART Don Bendell, (born January 8, 1947), is an American author of 26 books, including his brand new hardcover...

     (born 1947)
  • Tom W. Blackburn
    Tom W. Blackburn
    Thomas Wakefield Blackburn II , was an American author, screenwriter and lyricist. His work included various Western novels and television screenplays, as well as the lyrics to "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and other songs.-Biography:Born the eldest of six children on the T.O...

     (1913–1992)
  • Win Blevins
  • William Blinn
    William Blinn
    William Frederick Blinn is an American screenwriter and television producer.-Career:Born in Toledo, Ohio, Blinn began his career in television in the 1960s. As a screenwriter, Blinn has written episodes of Rawhide, Here Come the Brides, Gunsmoke, The Rookies, and Fame...

     (born 1937)
  • Stephen Bly
    Stephen Bly
    Stephen Bly was an author & novelist of more than 100 books and hundreds of articles, poems, and short stories. His book, The Long Trail Home Broadman & Holman, won the 2002 Christy Award in the category western novel:...

     (1944-2011)
  • Johnny D. Boggs (born 1962)
  • Frank Bonham
    Frank Bonham
    Frank Bonham was an western and young adult writer. Bonham wrote 48 novels, and also wrote TV scripts. He was a UCLA graduate....

     (1914–1988)
  • Allan R. Bosworth
    Allan R. Bosworth
    Captain Allan Rucker Bosworth served in the United States Navy and United States Navy Reserve for some 38 years and authored a number of books as well as magazine articles. He was born in San Angelo, Texas, worked as a journalist in San Francisco, and served in Japan as a Naval public relations...

     (1901–1986)
  • B. M. Bower
    B. M. Bower
    Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy , best known by her pseudonym B. M...

     (1871–1940), (Pseudonym of Bertha "Muzzy" Sinclair
    B. M. Bower
    Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy , best known by her pseudonym B. M...

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  • Leigh Brackett
    Leigh Brackett
    Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep , Rio Bravo , The Long Goodbye and The Empire Strikes Back .-Life:Leigh Brackett was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California...

     (1915–1978)
  • James Edwin Branch (born 1952)
  • Max Brand
    Max Brand
    Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand|thumb|rightFrederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand...

     (1892–1944), (Pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust
    Max Brand
    Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand|thumb|rightFrederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand...

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  • Lyle Brandt (born 1951), (Pseudonym of Michael Newton)
  • Peter Brandvold
    Peter Brandvold
    Peter Brandvold is an American western fiction author, who has written more than thirty published novels.Born and raised in North Dakota, Peter Brandvold spent much of his early life riding horses, reading western novels, and watching western movies....

     (Pseudonym, Frank Leslie)
  • Matt Braun
    Matt Braun
    Matt Braun is an author specializing in fictional stories of the American West. He has written fifty-six books, most of which are in the Western genre and has over 40 million copies in print....

     (born 1932)
  • Bill Brooks
    Bill Brooks
    William J. "Bill" Brooks is an American and former baseball and basketball coach who is best known for developing the University of North Carolina at Wilmington athletics program from a junior college to a Division I school. Brooks graduated with an AB from Atlantic Christian College in 1948...

  • Dee Brown
    Dee Brown (novelist)
    Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown was an American novelist and historian.His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee details some of the violence and oppression suffered by Native Americans at the hands of American expansionism.-Life:Born in Alberta, Louisiana, a sawmill town, Brown grew up in...

     (1908–2002)
  • Anthony Burgess
    Anthony Burgess
    John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...

     (1917–1993)
  • Terry W. Burns
    Terry W. Burns
    Terry W. Burns is an American Western Fiction author. Burns has written over two dozen books, including seven fiction books. He has also contributed to a number of short story collections....

     (born 1942)
  • Elizabeth Butler (Pseudonym of Eva Ridenour)

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  • David Wynford Carnegie (1871–1900)
  • Willa Cather
    Willa Cather
    Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...

     (1873–1947)
  • Robert W. Chambers
    Robert W. Chambers
    Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers , a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers , a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island...

     (Robert William Chambers) (1865–1933)
  • Tim Champlin (John Michael Champlin) (born 1937)
  • A.M. Chisholm (1872–1960)
  • Walter van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century and is known primarily for his novels, his one volume of stories, as well as his uncollected short stories...

     (1909–1971)
  • Walt Coburn (1889-1971)
  • Don Coldsmith
    Don Coldsmith
    Don Coldsmith was an American author of primarily Western fiction. A past president of Western Writers of America, Coldsmith wrote more than 40 books, as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles...

    , (1926–2009)
  • Jackson Cole
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

     (Pseudonym of Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

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  • Ralph Compton
    Ralph Compton
    Ralph Compton was an American writer of western fiction.A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. Mr...

     (1934–1999)
  • Robert J. Conley
    Robert J. Conley
    Robert J. Conley is a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.Conley was born in Cushing, Oklahoma and...

    , (born 1940)
  • Will Cook
    Will Cook (writer)
    William Everett Cook , was a western writer as Will Cook and Frank Peace. He also wrote under the pseudonym James Keene with the romance writer Ida Cook and as Wade Everett with the western and erotic writer Giles A...

     (William Everett Cook) (1921-1964)
  • Courtney Ryley Cooper
    Courtney Ryley Cooper
    Courtney Ryley Cooper was an American circus performer, publicist and writer. During his career he published over 30 books, many focusing on crime; J. Edgar Hoover considered him at one time "the best informed man on crime in the U...

     (1886–1940)
  • James Fenimore Cooper
    James Fenimore Cooper
    James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...

     (1789–1851)
  • Barry Cord
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

     (Pseudonym of Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

    )
  • William Robert Cox
    William Robert Cox
    William Robert Cox was an American author. He was a prolific writer of short stories and Western and Mystery novels mainly for the pulp and paperback markets. He wrote under at least six pseudonyms: Willard d'Arcy, Mike Frederic, John Parkhill, Joel Reeve, Roger G. Spellman and Jonas Ward.He was...


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  • Randy Denmon
  • H.A. DeRosso (1917-1960)
  • J. Frank Dobie
    J. Frank Dobie
    James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range...

     (1888-1964)
  • Harry Sinclair Drago

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  • J. T. Edson (born 1928)
  • Edward S. Ellis (Edward Sylvester Ellis) (1840–1916)
  • Loren D. Estleman
    Loren D. Estleman
    Loren D. Estleman is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He writes with a manual typewriter....

     (born 1952)
  • Max Evans
  • Wade Everett
    Wade Everett
    Wade Everett was the pseudonym used by the authors Will Cook and Giles A. Lutz to write western novels.-Single titles:*First Command *Fort Starke *Last Scout *Big Man, Big Mountain *Killer...


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  • Kathleen O'Neal Gear
    Kathleen O'Neal Gear
    Kathleen O'Neal Gear is an American writer. Gear is a former state historian and archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has twice received the federal government's Special Advancement Award for "outstanding management" of our nation's cultural...

    , (born 1954)
  • W. Michael Gear
    W. Michael Gear
    W. Michael Gear is an American writer, and archaeologist born in Colorado Springs, Colorado on May 20, 1955. He is perhaps best known for his First North Americans series, co-authored with wife Kathleen O'Neal Gear.-Biography:...

    , (born 1955)
  • George G. Gilman
    George G. Gilman
    George G. Gilman is one pseudonym, or pen name, of Terry Harknett. Under that name Harknett wrote three series of Western books: Edge, which his US publisher would brand, "The Most Violent Westerns In Print"; Adam Steele ; and The Undertaker...

  • Arthur Henry Gooden
    Arthur Henry Gooden
    Arthur Henry Gooden was an English screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 53 films between 1916 and 1937...

    , (1879–1971)
  • Edward Gorman
    Edward Gorman
    Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....

    , (born 1941)
  • Patricia Probert Gott
  • Dorien Grey
    Dorien Grey
    Roger Margason, who uses the pseudonym of Dorien Grey, is an openly gay American author, . Margason served in the U.S. Navy and graduated from Northern Illinois University with a BA in English....

  • Zane Grey
    Zane Grey
    Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the Old West. Riders of the Purple Sage was his bestselling book. In addition to the success of his printed works, they later had second lives and continuing influence...

     (1872–1939)
  • James J. Griffin
    James J. Griffin
    James J. Griffin is the author of the Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk series of western novels. The Blawcyzk stories are traditional Westerns....

     (born 1949)
  • Fred Grove
    Fred Grove
    Fred Grove was a Native American author and winner of five prestigious "Spur Awards" from Western Writers of America for his western novels. He was born in Hominy, Oklahoma.-Biography:...

     (1913-2008)
  • Frank Gruber
    Frank Gruber
    Frank Gruber may refer to:*Frank Gruber , American writer*Frank Gruber , entrepreneur and new media journalist...

    , (1904–1969)
  • Charles A. Gunnison (1861–1897)
  • A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901–1991)
  • Donald Gallinger
    Donald Gallinger
    Donald Nelson Gallinger is an American writer. He is the author of several novels. His most recent work, The Master Planets , which received strong reviews in Booklist, Jewish Book World, and ForeWord Magazine, tells the story of one Polish partisan fighter’s savagery during World War II and its...


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  • Mel Hague
    Mel Hague
    Mel Hague is an English country music singer and author.-Early life:...

  • William Wister Haines
    William Wister Haines
    William Wister Haines was an American author, screenwriter, and playwright. His most notable work, Command Decision, was published as a novel, play, and screenplay following World War II.-Personal history:...

     (1908–1989)
  • Angelo Hall (1868–1922)
  • Oakley Hall
    Oakley Hall
    Oakley Maxwell Hall was an American novelist. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II. Some of his mysteries were published under the pen names "O.M...

     (1920–2008)
  • D.M. Harrison (Diana Harrison)
  • Bret Harte
    Bret Harte
    Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.- Life and career :...

     (1836–1902)
  • Cynthia H. Haseloff
  • Travis Haselton
  • Ernest Haycox
    Ernest Haycox
    Ernest James Haycox was a prolific American author of Western fiction.-Biography:Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899...

     (1899–1950)
  • Will Henry (Henry Wilson Allen) (1912–1991)
  • Jean Henry-Mead
    Jean Henry-Mead
    Jean Henry Mead is an American novelist, award-winning photojournalist, historian and editor/publisher. She has also written under the names: Jean Henry, Jean Mead, and S...

  • Tony Hillerman
    Tony Hillerman
    Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...

     (1925–2008)
  • Lee Hoffman
    Lee Hoffman
    Lee Hoffman, born Shirley Bell Hoffman, was an American science fiction fan, an editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Western and romance novels.In 1950-53, she edited and published the highly-regarded science fiction fanzine, Quandry...

     (1932–2007)
  • Ray Hogan (author)
  • L.P. Holmes
  • Robert J. Horton
  • Robert E. Howard
    Robert E. Howard
    Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....

     (1906–1936)
  • Clair Huffaker
    Clair Huffaker
    Clair Huffaker was a U.S. author of westerns and other fiction, many of which were turned into films.-Novels:*Cowboy *Flaming Lance *Posse From Hell *Guns of Rio Conchos...

  • Min-Woo Hyung
    Min-Woo Hyung
    Hyung Min-woo is a South Korean manhwa artist best known for Priest.-External links:...


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  • Rye James http://www.ryejamesonline.com
  • Will James
    Will James (artist)
    Will James was an artist and writer of the American West.James was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault, in 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton, Quebec, Canada. He started drawing at the age of four on the kitchen floor...

    , (1892–1942)
  • Mike Jameson
  • Dorothy M. Johnson
    Dorothy M. Johnson
    Dorothy Marie Johnson was an American author best-known for her Western fiction.-Early life:...

     (1905–1984)
  • Terry C. Johnston
    Terry C. Johnston
    Terry C. Johnston was an American Western fiction author who wrote over 30 novels and had more than 10 million books in print....

     (1947–2001)
  • J.A. Johnstone
  • William W. Johnstone
    William W. Johnstone
    William Wallace Johnstone was a prolific American author, mostly of western, horror and survivalist novels.- Biography :...

     (1938-2004)
  • Cameron Judd
  • E.Z.C. Judson
    Ned Buntline
    Ned Buntline , was a pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson , an American publisher, journalist, writer and publicist best known for his dime novels and the Colt Buntline Special he is alleged to have commissioned from Colt's Manufacturing Company.-Naval and military experience:Edward Judson was...

     (Pseudonym of Ned Buntline
    Ned Buntline
    Ned Buntline , was a pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson , an American publisher, journalist, writer and publicist best known for his dime novels and the Colt Buntline Special he is alleged to have commissioned from Colt's Manufacturing Company.-Naval and military experience:Edward Judson was...

    )

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  • Jim Kane
    Jim Kane
    Jim Kane was a Nebraska high school football, basketball, track and cross country coach, and was named the state’s “Coach of the Year” in 1983, and was posthumously named to the state’s High School Hall of Fame....

     (Pseudonym of Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

    )
  • Mike Kearby
    Mike Kearby
    Mike Kearby is an American novelist and inventor. Since 2005, Kearby has published eight novels and one graphic novel.-Biography:...

  • Elmer Kelton
    Elmer Kelton
    Elmer Stephen Kelton was an American journalist and writer, known particularly for his Western novels.-Biography:...

     (1926–2009)
  • Charles King
    Charles King (general)
    Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer.-Biography:...

     (1844–1933)

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  • Louis L'Amour
    Louis L'Amour
    Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels , however he also wrote historical fiction , science fiction , nonfiction , as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies...

     (1908–1988)
  • Karl Lassiter
  • Steven Law (born 1966) http://www.stevenlaw.com
  • Wayne C. Lee
  • Alan LeMay (1899-1964)
  • Elmore Leonard
    Elmore Leonard
    Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...

     (born 1925)
  • Chuck Lewis (born 1936)
  • Jake Logan (author)
    Slocum (westerns)
    Slocum Westerns are the longest running series of Westerns ever written, encompassing over 400 books, all of which are published under the pen name Jake Logan...

  • Noel M. Loomis (1905-1979)
  • Milton Lott
    Milton Lott
    Milton Lott was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley. While there he started writing his first published novel, The Last Hunt. He worked on the novel while attending an English class taught by George R....

  • Giles A. Lutz
    Giles A. Lutz
    Giles Alfred Lutz was a prolific author of fiction in the Western genre. Born in March 1910 in Missouri, United States, Lutz for many years wrote short stories about the American West that were published in pulp magazines...

     (1910–1982)

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  • Jack Martin (born 1965) AKA Gary Dobbs
  • Kat Martin
    Kat Martin
    Kathleen Kelly Martin is an American writer of romance novels under the pen names of Kat Martin, Kathy Lawrence and Kasey Marx. She is married to writer and photographer Larry Jay Martin.-Biography:...

  • Walt Masterson
    Walt Masterson
    Walter Edward Masterson III was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers...

  • Karl May
    Karl May
    Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...

  • Richard Matheson
    Richard Matheson
    Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...

     (born 1926)
  • Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road...

  • Michael McGarrity
    Michael McGarrity
    Michael McGarrity is a New Mexican author and former law enforcement officer. He has written a dozen crime-suspense novels about New Mexico...

     (born 1939)
  • Tim McGuire
    Tim McGuire
    Tim McGuire is an American football coach in the United States. He served as the head coach at Morningside College from 1981 to 1982 and at Indiana State University from 1998 to 2004, compiling a career college football record of 31–70.-Coaching career:McGuire was the head college football...

  • Larry McMurtry
    Larry McMurtry
    Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas...

     (born 1936)
  • Everett McNeil (1862–1929)
  • Leonard Frank Meares
    Leonard Frank Meares
    Leonard Frank Meares was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700 Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshall Grover" "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell".Among his most famous characters were "Larry &...

  • Ross Morton (born 1948) AKA Nik Morton
  • Clarence Edward Mulford (1883–1956)
  • Scott Meador (born 1974)

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  • John D. Nesbitt (born 1948)
  • Frederick Nolan
    Frederick Nolan
    Frederick William Nolan is an English editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan, but also using the pen names Donald Severn, Daniel Rockfern, Christine McGuire and Frederick H. Christian....

  • Frank Norris
    Frank Norris
    Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague , The Octopus: A Story of California , and The Pit .-Life:Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870...

     (1870–1902)
  • Andre Norton
    Andre Norton
    Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...

     (1912–2005)

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  • Chad Oliver
    Chad Oliver
    Symmes Chadwick Oliver was an American science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin...

     (1928–1993)
  • T.V. Olsen (Theodore V. Olsen) (1932–1993)
  • Frank O'Rourke
    Frank O'Rourke
    Frank O'Rourke was an American writer known for western and mystery novels and sports fiction. O'Rourke ultimately wrote more than 60 novels and numerous magazine articles....

     (1906–1989)
  • Wayne D. Overholser
    Wayne D. Overholser
    Wayne D. Overholser was an American Western writer. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton...

    , (1906–1996)

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  • Lauran Paine
    Lauran Paine
    Lauran Bosworth Paine was an American writer of Western fiction.Paine wrote over 900 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old West, military history, witchcraft, and other subjects...

     (born 1916)
  • Robert B. Parker
    Robert B. Parker
    Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also...

     (1932-2010)
  • Lewis B. Patten
    Lewis B. Patten
    Lewis Byford Patten was a prolific author of American Western novels, born in Denver, Colorado. He often published under the names Lewis Ford, Len Leighton and Joseph Wayne. He used the last two names when writing in collaboration with Wayne D...

     (1915–1981)
  • Bill Pronzini
    Bill Pronzini
    Bill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories....

     (born 1943)

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  • William MacLeod Raine
    William MacLeod Raine
    William MacLeod Raine , was a British-born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West.-Life:William MacLeod Raine was born in London, the son of William and Jessie Raine...

     (1871–1954)
  • Robert J Randisi
    Robert J Randisi
    Robert J. Randisi is an American author who writes in the detective and Western genres.He has authored more than 500 published books and has edited more than 30 anthologies of short stories. Booklist magazine said he "may be the last of the pulp writers."...

     (born 1951)
  • James Reasoner
    James Reasoner
    American author James Reasoner specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms "Mike Jameson" and "Dana Fuller Ross." He has written more than 40 novels. His spouse, Livia Washburn Reasoner, is also a prolific writer of westerns, mysteries,...

     (pseudonym, L.J. Washburn)
  • John H. Reese
    John H. Reese
    John Henry Reese was an American author of Western and Crime Fiction. He won the prestigious 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for his first children's book, Big Mutt. He produced more than 40 Western novels and well over three hundred short stories...

     (1910–1981) (pseudonyms Eddie Abbott, John Jo Carpenter, Camford Cheavly, Camford Sheaveley & Camford Sheavely (chron.)) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716026/
  • Dusty Richards (born 1937)
  • John E. Richman (born 1947)
  • Conrad Richter
    Conrad Richter
    Conrad Michael Richter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier.-Biography:...

     (1890–1968)
  • Lucia St. Clair Robson
    Lucia St. Clair Robson
    -Literary biography:Lucia St. Clair Robson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. She has been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Venezuela, a teacher in New York City, and a librarian in Annapolis, Maryland. She has also lived in Japan, South Carolina, and Arizona...

     (born 1942)
  • Dana Fuller Ross
  • Reid L Rosenthal (born 1953)

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  • Les Savage, Jr. (1922–1958)
  • Jack Schaefer
    Jack Schaefer
    Jack Warner Schaefer was a twentieth century American author known for his Westerns. His most famous work is Shane, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie, and the short story "Stubby Pringle's Christmas" .-Biography:Schaefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of an attorney...

     (1907–1991)
  • Bradford Scott
  • Jon Sharpe
    Jon Sharpe
    Jon Sharpe was the original author of The Trailsman series of Western novels, published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group...

  • Jory Sherman
  • Luke Short
    Luke Short (writer)
    Luke Short was a popular Western writer.Born in Kewanee, Illinois Glidden attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two and a half years and then transferred to the University of Missouri at Columbia to study journalism.Following graduation in 1930 he worked for a number of...

     (1908–1975) (Pseudonym of Frederick D. Glidden)
  • Jack Slade (publisher house name, pseudonym of Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

     and others)
  • Cotton Smith
  • Frank H. Spearman
    Frank H. Spearman
    Frank Hamilton Spearman was an American author.He was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads....

     (1859–1937)
  • Kai Starr
    Kai Starr
    Kai Starr is an American author. He has written several books and drawn graphic novels in the science fiction and fantasy genres, but currently specializes in westerns. He is also a musician, and has recorded three albums of his original music...

     (born 1964) http://www.kaistarr.com
  • John Steinbeck
    John Steinbeck
    John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...

     (1902–1968)
  • Louis J. Stellman
    Louis J. Stellman
    Louis J. Stellman was a photographer, newspaper columnist, biographer and poet.He was born Baltimore, Maryland and went to California in July, 1896. By 1926 he was living in Menlo Park, California. Connected with the San Francisco Examiner by 1897, he also wrote "Observer" sketches for the Los...

     (1877–1961)
  • Gary Svee
    Gary Svee
    Gary Svee is an American author and journalist, known for his Westerns. He was born in Billings, Montana, growing up on the banks of the Yellowstone, Rosebud and Stillwater rivers, and is a graduate of the University of Montana's School of Journalism.Svee is a former editorial director for the...

     (born 1943)

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  • David Thompson
  • Nye Tredgold
  • Clay Turner
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

     (Pseudonym of Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano
    Peter B. Germano was an author of short stories, novels, and television scripts. He began his career with short stories. He wrote articles documenting the Marines in World War II as a combat correspondent. He wrote novels, most of which were westerns, but also wrote science fiction...

    )
  • Chuck Tyrell (pen name of Charles T. Whipple)

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  • Dale L. Walker
    Dale L. Walker
    Dale L. Walker , an award-winning American writer, was born in Decatur, Illinois, but has spent most of his life in El Paso, Texas. The author of twenty-three books, he has also served as a television reporter, editor, news and information officer, university press director, freelance writer,...

    , (born 1935)
  • Richard S. Wheeler
    Richard S. Wheeler
    Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning novelist of over sixty books about the American West, including the Barnaby Skye series of novels...

    , (born 1935)
  • Charles G. West
  • G. Clifton Wisler
    G. Clifton Wisler
    G. Clifton Wisler is the author of more than sixty-three books , many of them are historical fiction for young adults. Wisler lives in Plano, Texas in the United States, where he continues to work on his doctoral dissertation on the history of the Ninth Texas Infantry Regiment in the American...

  • Owen Wister
    Owen Wister
    Owen Wister was an American writer and "father" of western fiction.-Early life:Owen Wister was born on July 14, 1860, in Germantown, a well-known neighborhood in the northwestern part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Owen Jones Wister, was a wealthy physician, one of a long line of...

     (1860–1938)

See also

  • Western fiction
    Western fiction
    Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L'Amour from the mid 20th century...

  • Western movie
  • List of authors
  • Western Writers of America
    Western Writers of America
    Western Writers of America, founded 1953, promotes literature, both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to the American West. Although its founders wrote traditional western fiction, the more than five hundred current members also include historians and other non-fiction writers as well as authors...

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