Luke Short (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Luke Short (writer)

American writer

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Kewanee, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1975

Profession: writer, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Luke Short (writer)

  • Luke Short (born Frederick Dilley Glidden November 19, 1908 – August 18, 1975) was a popular Western writer. Born in Kewanee, Illinois, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two and a half years and then transferred to the University of Missouri at Columbia to study journalism.
  • Following graduation in 1930, he worked for a number of newspapers before becoming a trapper in Canada.
  • He later moved to New Mexico to be an archeologist's assistant. After reading Western pulp magazines and trying to escape unemployment, he began to write Western fiction.
  • He sold his first short story and novel in 1935 under the pen name of Luke Short (which was also the name of a famous gunslinger in the Old West, although it's unclear if he was aware of that when he assumed the pen name.) His apprenticeship in the pulps was comparatively brief.
  • In 1938 he sold a short story, The Warning, to Collier's and in 1941 he sold his novel Blood on the Moon, aka Gunman's Chance, to The Saturday Evening Post.After publishing over a dozen novels in the 1930s, he started writing for movies in the 1940s.
  • In 1948 alone, four Luke Short novels appeared as movies.
  • Among his notable film credits are Ramrod (1947) and Blood on the Moon (1948).
  • His novel, The Whip, aka Doom Cliff, was serialized in both Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post.
  • The first two parts were published in Collier's in the December 21, 1956 and January 4, 1957 issues.
  • Collier's then ceased publication.
  • The Saturday Evening Post bought the rights to the remaining unpublished installment and published it on February 9, 1957.
  • Short continued to write novels, despite increasing trouble with his vision, until his death in 1975.
  • His ashes are buried in Aspen, Colorado, his home at the time of his death.

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