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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 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.
Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for Best Western Novel for Law Man using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. Law Man was made into the motion picture Star in the Dust, starring John Agar and Richard Boone (and Clint Eastwood in his first - uncredited - Western role), in 1956. [1] In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land ...
During 2000, the official Spur Award website defined both categories as "book-length novels... dependent in whole or in part on settings, characters, conditions, or customs indigenous to the American West or early frontier," the distinction being that Best Western Novel was for works "90,000 words or less" while Best Novel of the West was for ...
4. Newsflesh by Mira Grant. Genre: Dystopian Fiction Books in series: Feed, Deadline, Blackout, Feedback They may not include all the gory zombie action that you’ve seen on countless episodes of ...
S. Savage Range; Scarlet Plume; Shalako (novel) Shane (novel) The Ship of Souls; Sisters (Lynne Cheney novel) The Sisters Brothers; Six-Gun Snow White; Slocum (westerns)
Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899. [2] After receiving an education in the local schools of both Washington state and Oregon, he enlisted in the United States Army in 1915 and was stationed along the Mexican border in 1916. [2]
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. [1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century.
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