Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women
These days, if readers know Zane Grey at all, they generally know him as the guy who wrote clunky but very popular paperback westerns. But eight decades ago or so, Grey, a former baseball player and dentist who turned to writing at the ripe old age of 30, was the hugely popular author of a string of best-sellers. This is the first full-length biography of him to appear since 1970, and according to Pauly, it's the first comprehensive account aimed at recording the facts. (Earlier efforts were aimed at creating a legend.) Grey was a man of many interests, an unabashed womanizer, a world traveler, and a champion of the American wilderness and the men and women who tamed the Old West. Pauly explores all facets of the novelist while avoiding devoting too much time to mining the man's novels for nuggets of his life. Grey's personal passions informed his novels, but his books were not mere fictionalized bits and pieces of his life. He was a man who stood apart from his work, and Pauly brings that man robustly to life.David PittCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.