Zane Grey : his life, his adventures, his women / Thomas H. Pauly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauly, Thomas H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Adventure and adventurers--United States--Biography.

Adventure and adventurers.

Western stories--History and criticism.

Western stories.

Grey, Zane, 1872-1939.

Grey, Zane.

Grey, Zane, 1872-1939--Relations with women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and a central player in the early popularity of the Western. Thomas H. Pauly's work is the first full-length biography of Grey to appear in over thirty years. Using a hitherto unknown trove of letters and journals, including never-before-seen photographs of his adventures--both natural and amorous-- Zane Grey has greatly enlarged and radically altered the current understanding of the superstar author, whose fifty-seven novels and one hundred and thirty movies heavily influenced the world's perception of the Old West.

Contents:

Wayward youth : 1872-90

Quest for direction : 1890-1905

Adventurous apprentice : 1906-10

Pursuit of the dream : 1911-14

Movie making and button fish : 1915-19

Calamity : 1920-23

Movin' on : 1924-25

Fresh starts and farewells : 1925-30

Undone : 1931-39.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-370) and index.

ISBN:

9786613895912

9781283583466

1283583461

9780252092114

0252092112

OCLC:

607567939