List of Western fiction authors
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
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