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It was introduced for the awards' 1988 iteration, replacing the earlier category of Best Historical Novel. [1] For a period, the Spur Awards included a Best Western Novel category as well as a Best Novel of the West category. John Mort explains the distinction in his book Read the High Country: "WWA defines Westerns... in market terms. A ...
The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is a ranked list of the 100 best novels published in the English language since January 1, 2000. Selection criteria
2008 - Best Western Short Novel: "Tallgrass" By Sandra Dallas (2) 2009 - Best Western Short Novel: "Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson; 2010 - Best Western Short Novel: "Far Bright Star" by Robert Olmstead; 2011 - Best Western Short Novel: "Snowbound" by Richard S. Wheeler (3) 2012 - Best Western Short Novel: "Legacy of a Lawman" by ...
Your Erroneous Zones is the first self-help book written by Wayne Dyer and first issued by Funk & Wagnalls publishers in April 1976. [1]It is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold. [2]
The Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in Western literature, first awarded in 1961, is also a Western Writers of America award, distinct from the Spur Awards. Initially, there were five Spur Awards categories: western novel, historical novel, juvenile, short story, and reviewer.
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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The books have been written by a number of authors, and all feature John Slocum as the protagonist.
Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 – January 24, 1991) [1] was an American writer known for his Westerns.His best-known works are the 1949 novel Shane, considered the greatest western novel by the Western Writers of America, [2] and the 1964 children's book Stubby Pringle's Christmas.
The revisionist Western is a sub-genre of the Western fiction. [1] [2] [3] Called a post-classical variation of the traditional Western, the revisionist subverts the myth and romance of the traditional by means of character development and realism to present a less simplistic view of life in the "Old West".