Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he decided to take up writing, going on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s. This first full-length biography of Grey to appear in over 30 years includes a hitherto unknown trove of letters and journals plus never-before-seen photos.
Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he decided to take up writing, going on to become the most ...
Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and a central player in the early popularity of the Western.
Thomas H. Pauly's work is the first full-length biography of Grey to appear in over thirty years. Using a hitherto unknown trove of letters and journals, including never-before-seen photographs of his adventures--both natural and...
Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of th...
This compelling blend of biography and cultural history depicts five important yet nearly forgotten athletes from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had a transformative effect on their sports and on the evolution of sports in general. Tom Stevens was the first man to ride a bicycle, a high wheeler, around the world (1884-87). Fanny Bullock Workman completed seven expeditions into the Himalayas between 1898 and 1912. Bill Reid, a Harvard football coach and one of the game s first professionals, played a key role in saving the sport from a national movement to abolish it in...
This compelling blend of biography and cultural history depicts five important yet nearly forgotten athletes from the late nineteenth and early twenti...
