L'amour, Louis (1908-1988)
One of the best-selling authors of all time, Western and adventure writer Louis L'Amour penned more than 100 books that have sold 200 million copies worldwide ...
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Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific western writer who once said "I write my books to be read aloud and I think of myself in that oral tradition." He wrote over 400 short stories and 100 novels, ...
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"It was May 14. In a few days my class back in Jamestown, North Dakota would be graduating from high school, and I was in Singapore."With these words, Louis L'Amour introduces Education of a Wandering...
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Louis L'Amour was a book publisher's dream. At 6'2" and 215 pounds he looked as if he had stepped off the pages of his most recent Western novel. Combining an indefatigable zest for writing with an ac...
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Critical Essay by Michael T. Marsden
Louis L'Amour is the best selling Western writer of all-time. The reasons for his remarkable success in the marketplace are many, but none seems as pervasiv...
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Critical Essay by Paul Bailey
[In The Burning Hills Louis L'Amour] made his one and only attempt at Literature—but Literature lost, and Louis L'Amour became famous. Twenty years a...
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Critical Essay by Michael T. Marsden
Popular Western fiction has strong ties to the oral tradition in American culture. In his works, L'Amour clearly considers himself to be in the tradition of...
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Critical Essay by Jon Tuska
[Hondo] remains a fine book unlike those which profligacy have recently made tediously repetitious. Hondo Lane is one of L'Amour's most engaging and interesti...
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Critical Essay by John D. Nesbitt
To the person who reads with a slightly less abandoned mind, and to the critic who does not dismiss L'Amour with ridicule and contempt, L'Amour's...
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Critical Essay by Steve Berner
In Comstock Lode L'Amour tells, obviously, the story of people caught up in the great silver rush that played such an important part in this nation's histo...
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Critical Essay by John D. Nesbitt
Readers who wish to get a full sense of Louis L'Amour's productions, for whatever purposes, must inevitably take on his two blockbusters, Bendigo Shafte...
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Critical Essay by John Pivovarnick
Louis L'Amour's [The Cherokee Trail] is both a little more and a little less than what I expected of the famed King of the Oat Epic.
It was more than I...
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L'amour, Louis (1908-1988)
Louis L'Amour
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Louis (Dearborn) L'Amour
