Zane Grey : his life, his adventures, his women / Thomas H. Pauly.
Zane Grey : his life, his adventures, his women / Thomas H. Pauly.
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Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N813.52/103
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English
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Physical content
xi, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2005.
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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 vital to the early popularity of the western."
"Thomas H. Pauly's work is the first full-length biography of Zane 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 will greatly enlarge and radically alter the current understanding of the superstar author, w...
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Zane Grey : his life, his adventures, his women / Thomas H. Pauly.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-370) and index.
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N813.52/103
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74VK6OK5lXrO
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ISBN
0252030443 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780252030444 (cloth : acidfree paper)
DDC
813.52 B
MMS ID
991020864649702626
