Title: Western (genre)
Content:  Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West, most commonly between 1860 and 1900. The first critically recognized Western was The Virginian (1902) by Owen Wister. Other well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey, from the early 1900s, Ernest Haycox, Luke Short, and Louis L'Amour, from the mid 20th century. Many writers better known in other genres, such as Leigh Brackett, Elmore Leonard, and Larry McMurtry, have also written Western novels. The genre's popularity peaked in the 1960s, due in part to the shuttering of many pulp magazines, the popularity of televised Westerns, and the rise of the spy novel. Readership began to drop off in the mid- to late 1970s and reached a new low in the 2000s. Most bookstores, outside of a few Western states, now only carry a small number of Western novels and short-story collections. Literary forms that share similar themes include stories of the American frontier, the gaucho literature of Argentina, and tales of the settlement of the Australian Outback.
Title: List of Western fiction authors
Content:  This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre. Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres.
Title: List of Western fiction authors
Content: Derek Haas (born 1970) ; Mel Hague ; William Wister Haines (1908–1989) ; Oakley Hall (1920–2008) ; Bret Harte (1836–1902) ; Kent Haruf (1943–2014) ; Ernest Haycox (1899–1950) ; Will Henry (Henry Wilson Allen) (1912–1991) ; Tony Hillerman (1925–2008) ; Lee Hoffman (1932–2007) ; Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) ; Clair Huffaker (1926–1990) 
Title: List of Western fiction authors
Content: Milo Manara (born 1945) ; Kat Martin ; Richard Matheson (1926–2013) ; Karl May (1842–1912) ; Ardath Mayhar (1930–2012) ; Cormac McCarthy (born 1933) ; Lucile Saunders McDonald (1898–1992) ; Michael McGarrity (born 1939) ; Thomas McGuane (born 1939) ; Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) ; Leonard Frank Meares ; Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) ; Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975) ; Clarence Edward Mulford (1883–1956) 
Title: Western fiction
Content:  In the 1970s, the work of Louis L'Amour began to catch hold of most western readers and he has tended to dominate the western reader lists ever since. George G. Gilman also maintained a cult following for several years in the 1970s and 1980s. Larry McMurtry's and Cormac McCarthy's works remain notable. Specifically, McMurtry's Lonesome Dove and McCarthy's Blood Meridian (both published in 1985) are recognized as major masterpieces both within and beyond the genre. Elmer Kelton, mostly noted for his novels The Good Old Boys and The Time it Never Rained, was voted by the Western Writers of America as the "Best Western Writer of All Time". Early in the 1970s Indiana novelist Marilyn Durham wrote two popular Western novels, The Man Who Loved Cat 
Title: List of Western fiction authors
Content: Lauran Paine (1916–2001) ; Robert B. Parker (1932–2010) ; Lewis B. Patten (1915–1981) ; Charles Portis (1933–2020) ; Bill Pronzini (born 1943) ; Annie Proulx (born 1935) ; C.J. Petit 
Title: List of Western fiction authors
Content: Edward Abbey (1927–1989) ; Andy Adams (1859–1935) ; Rudolfo Anaya (1937–2020) 
Title: List of Western fiction authors
Content: Benjamin Capps ; David Wynford Carnegie (1871–1900) ; David F. Case (1937–2018) ; Forrest Carter (1925–1979) ; Willa Cather (1873–1947) ; Robert W. Chambers (Robert William Chambers) (1865–1933) ; A.M. Chisholm (1871–1960) ; Matt Chisholm (1919–1983), (pseudonym of Peter C. Watts) ; Walter van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971) ; Robbie Coburn (born 1994) ; Walt Coburn (1889–1971) ; Don Coldsmith (1926–2009) ; Jackson Cole, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) ; Ralph Compton (1934–1999) ; Robert J. Conley (1940–2014) ; Will Cook (William Everett Cook) (1921–1964) ; Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886–1940) ; James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) ; Barry Cord, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) ; Ralph Cotton ; William R. Cox (1901–1988) ; Bill Crider (1941–2018) ; Elizabeth Crook (born 1959) ; William Everett Cook (1921–1964) 
Title: List of Western fiction authors
Content: Robert Lewis Taylor (1912–1998) ; David Thompson ; Harlan Howard Thompson ; Nye Tredgold ; Clay Turner, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) ; Mark Twain (1835–1910) 
Title: Western (comics)
Content:  Western is a Franco-Belgian one shot comic written by Jean Van Hamme, illustrated by Grzegorz Rosinski and published by Le Lombard in French and Cinebook in English.

Question: Who is the author of Western?
Answer: Jean Van Hamme.