List of Western fiction authors: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre.

Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres.

• Clifton Adams
• Todhunter Ballard
• Jack Ballas
• S. Omar Barker
• Dwight Bennett, (pseudonym of Dwight B. Newton)
• Jack M. Bickham
• Frank Bonham, (1914-1988)
• B.M. Bower, (pseudonym of Bertha "Muzzy" Sinclair)
• Max Brand (1892-1944), (Pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust)
• Peter Brandvold
• Matt Braun
• Bill Burchardt
• Willa Cather, (1873-1947)
• Walter van Tilburg Clark, (1909-1971)
• Don Coldsmith
• Ralph Compton, (1934-1999)
• Robert J. Conley
• James Fenimore Cooper, (1789-1851)
• Barry Cord
• Ralph W. Cotton
• William R. Cox
• Peter Dawson (I), (Pseudonym of Jonathan Glidden)
• J.T. Edson
• Allan Vaughan Elston
• Loren D. Estleman
• Max Evans
• Tabor Evans
• Cliff Farrell
• Peter Field
• Norman A. Fox
• Steve Frazee, (1909-1992)
• Kelly P. Gast
• Edward Gorman
• Zane Grey, (1872-1939)
• Fred Grove, (born 1913)
• Frank Gruber
• Bill Gulick
• A.B. Guthrie, Jr., (1901-1991)
• Michael Hammonds
• Cynthia Haselhoff
• Ernest Haycox
• Will Henry
• Douglas Hirt
• Lee Hoffman
• Roy Hogan
• Dorothy M. Johnson
• Terry C. Johnston, (1947-2001)
• William W. Johnstone, (born 1938)
• E.Z.C. Judson (Pseudonym of Ned Buntline)
• Leo P. Kelly
• Elmer Kelton, (born 1924)
• Louis L'Amour, (1908-1988)
• Stephen Law
• Elmore Leonard, (born 1925)
• Jake Logan
• Giles A. Lutz
• Larry McMurtry, (born 1936)
• Clarence E. Mulford
• Nelson Nye
• T.V. Olsen, (1932-1993)(Theodore V. Olsen)
• Frank O'Rourke
• Stephen Overholser
• Wayne D. Overholser
• Lauran Paine, (born 1916)
• Lewis B. Patten
• Bill Pronzini
• John Reese
• Conrad Richter, (1890-1968)
• Frank Roderus, (born 1942)
• Jack Schaefer, (1907-1991)
• Charles Alden Seltzer
• Jon Sharpe
• Luke Short, (1908-1975)(Pseudonym of Frederick D. Glidden)
• Robert J. Steelman
• David Thompson (I)
• Charles G. West
• Richard S. Wheeler, (born 1935)
• G. Clifton Wisler
• Owen Wister, (1860-1938)
• Carter Travis Young

External Resources

Western Writers of America website: http://www.westernwriters.org/