Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour, born Louis Dearborn LaMoore in 1908 and died in 1988, was an American novelist and short story writer whose books were primarily Western novels, although he preferred to call them frontier stories. His best known Western works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako and the Sackett series. He also wrote historical fiction such as The Walking Drum, science fiction in The Haunted Mesa, a work of nonfiction titled Frontier, and collections of poetry and short stories, and many of his stories were made into films. At his death almost all of his 105 existing works, made up of 89 novels, 14 short story collections and two full-length works of nonfiction, were still in print, and he was described as one of the world's most popular writers.