Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252030444)

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.

Author: Thomas H. Pauly
ISBN-10: 0252030443
ISBN-13: 9780252030444
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2005
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.48w x 1.44d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2005 pg. 130
Booklist 11/15/2005 pg. 14
New York Review of Books 01/01/2006 pg. 8
New York Times 01/01/2006 pg. 8