Thanks, James. Great stuff. My library system has no Jonas
Ward titles and one title for William Heuman, a YA on
American Indians. I'll add them to my reading lists.
Ed
--- On Mon, 6/9/08, James Reasoner <
jamesreasoner@flash.net> wrote:
> From: James Reasoner <
jamesreasoner@flash.net>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Top Selling Gold Medal
Authors
> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 4:08 PM
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Ed Lynskey
> <e_lynskey@...> wrote:
> >
> > Fascinating. I'm surprised to see Peter Rabe
ahead
> of Charles
> Williams and Harry Whittington. Didn't Jonas Ward
write
> Westerns
> (talk about alliteration)?
> >
> > Ed
>
> Jonas Ward was really William Ard, who wrote quite a
few
> hardboiled
> novels under his real name and a pseudonym or two.
His
> Westerns were
> the very popular Buchanan series. He wrote five or
six of
> them, then
> died in the middle of a manuscript that was
completed by
> Robert
> Silverberg. The next Buchanan novel was ghosted by
Brian
> Garfield,
> then William R. Cox settled in as the regular ghost
for
> another
> fifteen or sixteen books.
>
> William Heuman was a prolific author in the Western
pulps
> who became
> a prolific paperbacker for Gold Medal, Ace, and
Avon.
> Good, tough
> writer, too.
>
> Louis L'Amour had only a relative handful of
books
> published by Gold
> Medal, the top-selling of which must have been
HONDO. From
> the mid-
> Fifties on, all of L'Amour's novels were
published
> by Bantam, except
> for reissues of the earlier titles published by Gold
Medal
> -- some of
> which were actually reprints of Ace Double
Westerns
> originally
> published under the Jim Mayo pseudonym.
>
> James Reasoner
>
>
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