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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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