Facts: - death place: la plata , missouri - death date: 11 march 1959 - birth date: october 12 , 1904 - name: lester dent - image size: 250px - parents: alice norfolk , bernard dent - birth place: la plata , missouri - occupation: writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lester dent .
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lester dent -lrb- october 12 , 1904 -- march 11 , 1959 -rrb- was an american pulp-fiction author , best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer , doc savage .the 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name kenneth robeson .