Author: Lauran Paine
Alternate names: Ray Ainsbury; Roy Ainsbury; Ray Ainsworth; Roy Ainsworth; Clay Allen; Rosa Almonte; A.A. Andrews; John Armour; Geoffrey Armstrong; Thornton Ayre; Kathleen Bartlett; Reg Batchelor; Harry Beck; Kenneth Bedford; Will Benton; Hugo Blayn; Frank Bosworth; Ruth Bovee; Will Bradford; Concho Bradley; Will Brennan; Mark Carrel(l); Nevada Carter; Claude Cassidy; Badger Clark; Richard Clarke; Robert Clarke; Dennis Clive; John Cotton; Polton Cross; Clint Custer; Amber Dana; Richard Dana; Audrey Davis; Astron del Martia; Mark Denholm; Douglas Dodd; Sheridan Drew; J.F. Drexler; Lawrence Kerfman Duby, Jr.; Antoinette Duchesne; John Durham; Max Elton; Margot Fisher; Betty Fleck; Joni Frost; Donn Glendenning; James Glenn; Angela Gordon; Spike Gordon; Beth Gorman; Volsted Gridban; Griff; Francis Hart; Malcom Hartley; Jay Hayden; Timothy Hayes; Conrad G. Holt; Helen Holt; John R. Holt; Will Houston; Elizabeth Howard; Troy Howard; John Hunt; Jared Ingersol; Frank Jones; Marvin Kayne; Ray Kelley; Jack Ketchum; John Kilgore; Clifford Lewis; Hunter Liggett; Herbert Lloyd; Paul Lorraine; J.K. Lucas; Buck Lyon; Bruce Martin; Tom Martin; Angela Morgan; Arlene Morgan; Frank Morgan; John Morgan; Valerie Morgan; Clint O'Connor; Dom Passante; Henry Rawle; Francis Rose; Lawrence F. Rose; Ward Ross; John Russell; Doom Sclanders; Joan Seagar; Helen Sharp; Brian Schire; Bryan Shaw; John Slate; Jim Slaughter; Arthur St. George; Buck Standish; Vargo Statten; Margaret Stuart; K. Thomas; Buck Thompson; Barbara Thorn; Earl Titan; P.F. Undine; Arthur Waterhouse, John Wer(n)heim; Ephriam Winiki; Lauren Paine; Lauran Paine Jr
Born: 25 Feb 1916
Died: 1 Dec 2001
Bio: Lauran Bosworth Paine (born Lawrence Kerfman Duby Jr., in Duluth, Minnesota) was an American writer. He wrote over 1000 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old West, military history, witchcraft, and other subjects. Because his publishers only accepted a limited number of books under a single author's name, Paine adopted dozens of pseudonyms.

Youthful experiences in the livestock trade, rodeos, and even as a movie cowboy -- along with listening to the old timers around him -- have lent an unmistakable authenticity to his stories of the west.