Author: Max BrandPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Notebooks and Poems of "Max Brand."
Author: Max BrandMax Brand, Western Giant
Author: William F. NolanPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Called the King of the Pulps, Frederick Schiller Faust, aka Max Brand, wrote nearly 400 Westerns from The Untamed to Destry Rides Again--a total of more than 220 books in this genre. Yet Max Brand also created Dr. Kildare (of books, films, and television) and wrote under twenty-one pseudonyms, in another dozen genres. This book removes the mask, with deeply personal memoirs from family, friends and fellow writers, taking us through his orphaned boyhood on the brutal ranches of California, his frustrating decades in Italy, as both a classical poet and a fast-action pulpist, to his heroic death as a war correspondent on the World War II battlefields. Faust's life story is augmented by a complete bibliography of his work--over a thousand books, stories, and films--plus the first listing of works about Faust.
Ernest Haycox and the Western
Author: Richard W. EtulainPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806159219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox’s literary career, Richard W. Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western’s most successful creators. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1923 with a degree in journalism, Haycox began his quest to break into New York’s pulp magazine scene, submitting dozens of stories before he began to make a living from his writing. By the end of the 1920s he had become a top writer for Western Story, Short Stories, and Adventure, among other popular weeklies and monthlies. Ernest Haycox and the Western traces Haycox’s path from rank beginner, to crack pulp writer, to regular contributor to Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. Etulain shows how Haycox experimented with techniques to deepen and broaden his Westerns, creating more introspective protagonists (Hamlet heroes), introducing new types of heroines (the brunette vixen, the blonde Puritan), and weaving greater historical realism into his plots. After reaching the height of success with his best-selling Custer novel, Bugles in the Afternoon (1944), Haycox moved away from the financially rewarding but artistically constricting Western formula—only to achieve his final coup with The Earthbreakers, a historical novel about the end of the Oregon Trail, published posthumously in 1952. Reconstructing the career of a popular literary giant, Ernest Haycox and the Western restores Haycox to his rightful place in the history of Western literature.
Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America
Author: Cynthia S. HamiltonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349083909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349813664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1585
Book Description
The Collector's Bookshelf
Author: Joseph Raymond LeFontainePublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Book collectors are a special (and wonderful) breed, as are books related to book-collecting. This fine example lists the correct titles and original date and place of publication of more than 33,000 collectible book titles. The titles listed were written by 931 authors who used a total of 1,764 dif
Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Author: Richard AquilaPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065279
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Following Richard Aquila's introduction, which examines the birth and growth of the pop culture West in the context of American history, noted expects explore developments in popular western fiction, major forms of live western entertainment, trends in western movies and television shows, images of the West in popular music, and visual images of the West in popular art and advertising.
Westport Poems
Author: Jonathan TowersPublisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556435959
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A beloved, familiar figure known as “Jon the Walker” for his daily appearances traversing the marshes and waterways of various Connecticut towns, Jonathan Towers composed brief, emotionally evocative poems until his suicide in 2005 after years of struggle with mental illness. His work was fueled by reading and a rich inner life exploring the tarot, medieval history, courtly love and relationship, and the pre-Socratic philosophers. These poems beautifully evoke a sense of place, while also powerfully critiquing the forces of modern life that threaten it.
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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