biography
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L'Amour, Louis (Dearborn)
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originally Louis Dearborn LaMoore, pseudonyms Tex Burns, Jim Mayo
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pronunciation:
[lamoor]
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| lived:
| (1908–88)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA. Leaving school when young, he travelled throughout W America and the world and held a number of jobs, ranging from lumberjack to elephant handler. He published a book of poetry (1939), but it was his first Western novel, Hondo (1953), that gained him instant success. Although he later wrote a non-fiction book about the frontier, and numerous film and television scripts, it was his many Westerns that gained him great popularity among a wide spectrum of readers. |
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