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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960167203321

Autore

Pauly Thomas H

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005

ISBN

9786613895912

9781283583466

1283583461

9780252092114

0252092112

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

813/.52

B

Soggetti

Novelists, American - 20th century

Adventure and adventurers - United States

Western stories - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.