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Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour's adventurous life could have been the subject of one of his novels. Striking out on his own in 1923, at age 15, L'Amour began a peripatetic existence, taking whatever jobs were available, from skinning dead cattle to being a sailor. L'Amour knew early in life that he wanted to be a writer, and the experiences of those years serve as background for some of his later fiction. During the 1930s he published short stories and poetry; his career was interrupted by army service in World War II. After the war, L'Amour began writing for western pulp magazines and wrote several books in the Hopalong Cassidy series using the pseudonym Tex Burns. His first novel, Westward the Tide (1950), serves as an example of L'Amour's frontier fiction, for it is an action-packed adventure story containing the themes and motifs that he uses throughout his career. His fascination with history and his belief in the inevitability of manifest destiny are clear. Also present and typical of L'Amour's work are the strong, capable, beautiful heroine who is immediately attracted to the equally capable hero; a clear moral split between good and evil; reflections on the Native Americans, whose land and ways of life are being disrupted; and a happy ending. Although his work is somewhat less violent than that of other western writers, L'Amour's novels all contain their fair share of action, usually in the form of gunfights or fistfights. L'Amour's major contribution to the western genre is his attempt to create, in 40 or more books, the stories of three families whose histories intertwine as the generations advance across the American frontier. The novels of the Irish Chantry, English Sackett, and French Talon families are L'Amour's most ambitious project, and sadly were left unfinished at his death. Although L'Amour did not complete all of the novels, enough of the series exists to demonstrate his vision. L'Amour's strongest attribute is his ability to tell a compelling story; readers do not mind if the story is similar to one they have read before, for in the telling, L'Amour adds enough small twists of plot and detail to make it worth the reader's while. L'Amour fans also enjoy the bits of information he includes about everything from wilderness survival skills to finding the right person to marry. These lessons give readers the sense that they are getting their money's worth, that there is more to a L'Amour novel than sheer escapism. With over 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, L'Amour must be counted as one of the most influential writers of westerns in this century. He died from lung cancer on June 10, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, & was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are over 260 million copies of his books in print worldwide. (Publisher Provided) — beskrivning från Projekt Makatozi… (mer)
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Den fjärde världen 1,299 exemplar, 20 recensioner
Jag är Kerbouchard 1,292 exemplar, 24 recensioner
Sackett's Land 1,192 exemplar, 26 recensioner
Vinden viskar Itchakomi 1,148 exemplar, 18 recensioner
Hondo 1,110 exemplar, 26 recensioner
To the Far Blue Mountains 1,110 exemplar, 10 recensioner
Guldlandet 1,083 exemplar, 16 recensioner
Daggryningen 1,077 exemplar, 17 recensioner
De ensamma gudarna 1,045 exemplar, 13 recensioner
Education of a Wandering Man 1,014 exemplar, 37 recensioner
The Warrior's Path 995 exemplar, 13 recensioner
Ride the River 957 exemplar, 14 recensioner
Flint 893 exemplar, 10 recensioner
The Sackett Brand 870 exemplar, 10 recensioner
Lonely on the Mountain 814 exemplar, 3 recensioner
Lando 792 exemplar, 10 recensioner
Döda mäns guld 759 exemplar, 5 recensioner
The Lonely Men 756 exemplar, 5 recensioner
Ride the Dark Trail 753 exemplar, 9 recensioner
Mustang Man 751 exemplar, 8 recensioner
Hämnaren 746 exemplar, 8 recensioner
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The Ferguson Rifle 657 exemplar, 7 recensioner
The Iron Marshall 649 exemplar, 6 recensioner
Silver Canyon 644 exemplar, 7 recensioner
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The Cherokee Trail 630 exemplar, 9 recensioner
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Fair Blows the Wind 615 exemplar, 11 recensioner
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Crossfire Trail 564 exemplar, 5 recensioner
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The Mountain Valley War 561 exemplar, 3 recensioner
The Rider of Lost Creek 560 exemplar, 7 recensioner
Tucker 556 exemplar, 6 recensioner
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Utmaningen 500 exemplar, 7 recensioner
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West from Singapore 284 exemplar, 3 recensioner
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Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908. He left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs. In 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.

Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988.
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