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Gordon Ray Young – Author, Cowboy – Autobiography in Saturday Evening Post, March 7, 1942

Gordon Young was one of the top writers for Adventure magazine. Here’s an auto-biographical short article from him on that originally appeared in the March 7, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Gordon Ray Young GORDON RAY YOUNG, having written his first Post serial with Tall in the Saddle, goes back over his own… Continue reading Gordon Ray Young – Author, Cowboy – Autobiography in Saturday Evening Post, March 7, 1942

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J. D. Newsom – Obituary in the New York Times (April 27 1954)

John D. Newsom, author, editor and former national director of the Federal Writers Project of the old Works Progress Administration, died Saturday of a heart attack aboard the Home liner Roma on the way to Italy. Mr. Newsom was about 60 years old and recently had resided on a farm In Bucks County, Pa. Mr.… Continue reading J. D. Newsom – Obituary in the New York Times (April 27 1954)

Gordon MacCreagh – Trapped by a man-eater

Gordon MacCreagh tells a story of his hunting days in Burma. Trapped By a Man-Eater “A witch tiger,” the Burmese natives said. “The soul of a sorcerer inhabits this one.” Already the man-eater had claimed three victims, and Gordon MacCreagh, whose story wins first prize in a “Narrowest Escape from Death” contest, was “sitting up”… Continue reading Gordon MacCreagh – Trapped by a man-eater

Author profile: J Paul Suter (Newspaper article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1951)

Quiet Youngstown Executive Writes Thrillers for Pulps  YOUNGSTOWN, O., May 14 Suter, a mild-mannered, dig­nified, gray-haired gentleman of 66, is secretary-treasurer of the Stambaugh Estates, Inc., the Stambaugh Auditorium Association and the Scioto Land Co. here. He goes to church regularly and is active in Y. M. C. A. affairs. But he also leads a… Continue reading Author profile: J Paul Suter (Newspaper article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1951)

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