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This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre. Part of a series on: Westerns; Media; Film; Television; Literature; Visual arts; Dime novels; Comics;
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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The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
Western fiction Terry Conrad Johnston [ 1 ] (1 January 1947 – 25 March 2001) was an American Western fiction author who wrote 31 novels and had more than 10 million books in print. [ 2 ]
Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University.Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program.His students included Wendell Berry, Sandra Day O'Connor, Edward Abbey, Simin Daneshvar, Andrew Glaze, George V. Higgins, Thomas McGuane, Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, Gordon Lish, Ernest Gaines, and Larry McMurtry.
The Spur Award for Best Western Novel is a prize given by the Western Writers of America as part of the annual Spur Awards.. The category was introduced in 1953, when it was known simply as the "Novel" award.
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.