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Pale Horse Coming

He assembles a group of six legendary gunmen (who are based on Elmer Keith, Jack O'Connor, Audie Murphy, Charles Askins, Bill Jordan, and Ed McGivern) with the promise of real action for a just cause and readies them for an assault on Thebes.

Ruth Pine Furniss

Ruth Pine Furniss (18931957), was an American writer who published several short stories and novels.

Safari Press

In 1987 the company released five titles including With a Rifle in Mongolia by Count Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, From Mount Kenya to the Cape by Craig Boddington, and Hunting on Three Continents by the late Jack O’Connor, which was a compilation of stories from Petersen’s Hunting magazine.

Tower Comics

Notable creators associated with Tower included Wood, Schwartz, Dan Adkins, Gil Kane, Reed Crandall, Steve Ditko, Richard Bassford, Len Brown, Steve Skeates, Larry Ivie, Bill Pearson, Russ Jones, Roger Brand, and Tim Battersby-Brent.

Weatherby Mark V

This is due in part to Roy Weatherby who presented the rifles to royalty, politicians, gun writers and actors including Prince Abdorreza Pahlavi of Iran, Generals James Doolittle (USAF) and Chuck Yeager (USAF), Jack O'Connor, Warren Page, Elgin Gates and Lorne Greene and was able to use this fact as a marketing tool.


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A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport And A Pastime (1967) is a novel by the American writer James Salter.

Adubato

Steve Adubato (born 1957), American writer, journalist, motivational speaker and politician

Alfred Perles

In 1933, American writer Henry Miller - not yet known - took an apartment with Perlès in Clichy.

Aller Retour New York

Aller Retour New York is a novel by American writer Henry Miller, published in 1935 by Obelisk Press in Paris, France.

Barcott

Rye Barcott (born 1979), American writer and United States Marine Corps officer

Baxandall

Lee Baxandall (January 26, 1935 - November 28, 2008), American writer, editor and critic, and a leader of the naturist movement

Benioff

David Benioff (born 1970), American writer, screenwriter and television producer

Bergstein

Eleanor Bergstein (born 1938) is an American writer, best known for writing and co-producing the cult classic film, Dirty Dancing,.

Bronisława Wajs

Zoli, the fourth novel of the Irish-born American writer Colum McCann follows the life of Marienka Novotna, nicknamed "Zoli", a fictional Slovak Romani woman.

Cameron Daddo

In 2000, he also starred in Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story as Jack Garrison, an American writer who had an important role during World War I. Daddo appeared as Samuel Clemens in the 2003 television pilot Riverworld based on the popular novels.

Carillo

Mary Carillo (born 1957), an American writer, sportscaster, and former women's tennis player

Center Moriches, New York

Chester G. Osborne - American composer, American music educator, American writer, American trumpeter

Chapala

In the late 1940s the famous American writer Tennessee Williams settled in Chapala for a while to work in the play called The Poker Night, which later became A Streetcar Named Desire.

Colet

Colet Abedi (21st century), Iranian-American writer and producer

David Wong

David Wong Louie (born 1954), American writer of novels and short stories

Diana Ossana

Diana Lynn Ossana is an American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd.

Emrich

Alan Emrich, American writer about and designer of computer games

Freudenstadt

In the 19th and 20th centuries, visitors of note included George V of the United Kingdom, the Queen of Sweden, John D. Rockefeller, and even the American writer Mark Twain.

Gary Lavergne

Gary M. Lavergne is an American writer of non-fiction novels about Texas mass murderers Charles J. Whitman and Abdelkrim Belachheb, and serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff.

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It is a book published in 2009 by American writer, journalist and media critic Ken Auletta.

Great Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty, 2003 fantasy novel by American writer of young adult literature, Libba Bray; first volume in Gemma Doyle Trilogy takes place in 1895, as young title character experiences clairvoyant visions associated with ancient order of powerful women known as "the Order"

Henry Noyes

Henry Halsey Noyes, American writer, publisher, teacher, and distributor of Chinese books and magazines.

Hotel Lautréamont

Hotel Lautréamont is a 1992 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery.

How to Live Forever

Also featured in the documentary is celebrated American writer Ray Bradbury, who is best known for his books Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Humphrey Cobb

Another American writer named Cobb, the unrelated Irvin S. Cobb, also wrote a World War I book called Paths of Glory (1915), a non-fiction account of his journalistic experiences during the war.

Lawrence H. Levy

Lawrence H. Levy is an American writer and producer on Savannah, Fantasy Island, Family Ties, Trapper John, M.D., Saved by the Bell, Who's the Boss?, 7th Heaven, Roseanne, Seinfeld.

Liang Tsai-Ping

While at Yale University in 1945-46, he introduced a performance on the "China Program" with the American writer Emily Hahn, on DuMont Television.

Long Lost

Long Lost is a novel by American writer Harlan Coben.

Lorre

Chuck Lorre (born 1952), American writer, director, producer and composer

Marie-Victorin Kirouac

He was also a relative of the noted American writer, Jack Kerouac.

Max Ehrmann

Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired").

Panshin

Alexei Panshin (born 1940), American writer and science fiction critic

Passos

Dos Passos Prize (also known as John dos Passos Prize), an annual award for the best currently under-recognized American writer in the middle of their career

Quealy

Gerit Quealy, American writer, editor, Shakespearean scholar, and actor

Reardan, Washington

Famous Native American writer Sherman Alexie attended Reardan High School, which is featured in a few of his stories and in his 2007 novel for young adults, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Richard Foster

Kendell Foster Crossen (1910–1981), American writer who used the pen-name Richard Foster

Richard Goodwin

Richard N. Goodwin (born 1931), American writer and advisor to US Presidents Kennedy and Johnson

Richard Lowry

:: See Rich Lowry for American writer, pundit and current editor of National Review.

Robin Moore

(October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who is most known for his books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and, with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

Salvador Plascencia

Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Sontag Hotel

Several famous people also stayed at Sontag hotel while they paid a visit to Korea such as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American writer Mark Twain.

The Mysteries of Paris

Ned Buntline wrote The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in 1848, but the leading American writer in the genre was George Lippard whose best seller was The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (1844); he went on to found the paper The Quaker City as a vehicle for more of his mysteries and miseries.

The Tenants of Moonbloom

The Tenants of Moonbloom is a novel by the Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant (1926–1962).

The Turquoise Shop

The Turquoise Shop (1941) is a mystery novel by the American writer Frances Crane.

Tim Carvell

Tim Carvell is an American writer known for this work for the TV comedy series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his print work in publications such as Mad and The New York Times.

Tommyknocker

The Tommyknockers, a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Stephen King

Townsley

Joel Townsley Rogers (1896–1984), American writer who wrote science-fiction, air-adventure, and mystery stories

Will Tuttle

Will M. Tuttle (born 1953) is an American writer, speaker, and musician, and author of The World Peace Diet.