Author: Richard Wormser
Alternate names: Conrad Gerson; Ed Friend
Born: 2 February 1908
Died: 14 July 1977
Bio: Richard Edward Wormser wrote pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns. , some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He wrote approximately 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, and 12 books, as well as screenplays and stories that were turned into screenplays. He wrote seventeen novels in the Nick Carter series. He also wrote a cookbook, *Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range*. He wrote under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Conrad Gerson and Ed Friend. He won two Western Spur Awards for juvenile fiction, one in 1964  for *Ride a Northbound Horse*, and one in 1971 for *The Black Mustanger*. In 1973 he won an Edgar Award for best paperback for *The Intruder*.