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Zane Grey (1872 - 1939)
Zane Grey! The name just sings cowboy. Certainly moreso than Pearl Zane Gray, the name his Quaker mother gave him in Zanesville, Ohio. Dropping the Pearl is obvious, but the subtle changing of the American “a” for the English “e” is a master stroke. He played minor league baseball but never made the big time. His father paid off a paternity suit in the 1890s for $133.40. Eventually he settled down to practice dentistry, as had his father, but he was so bored with extracting teeth that he began to spend his evenings writing. He wrote more than 90 books.
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1. Helen Losse replies at 12th April 2008, 12:19 pm :
I think my Dad had every single one. He read them over and over. Now my brother-in-law’s reading them.
2. sherry replies at 13th April 2008, 9:35 am :
I always read my father’s books, Helen. Well, actually, I always read everything I could lay my hands on, including cereal boxes. Though I never could get into True Confessions magazines. Are those still around? A friend used to have a secret stash that she’d pore over but they always made my skin crawl a little bit.
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