Wayne D. Overholser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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writer
Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1906
Place of Birth: Pomeroy, Washington, United States
Date of Death: 27-Aug-1996
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Wayne D. Overholser
- Wayne D.
- Overholser (born September 4, 1906 in Pomeroy, Washington; †died August 27, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado), was an American Western writer.
- Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for Best Western Novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton.
- Lawman was made into the motion picture Star in the Dust, starring John Agar and Richard Boone (and Clint Eastwood in his first - uncredited - Western role), in 1956.
- In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land.
- He won the Spur Award for a third time in 1969 for his the juvenile novel about the Meeker Massacre, with Lewis Patten.
- Three additional pseudonyms were John S.
- Daniels, Dan J.
- Stevens and Joseph Wayne; combinations of his three sons' names.
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