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Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
Zane Grey was one of the prominent authors of America who used to write his novels based on the western fiction genre. He was born as Pearl Zane Gray on January 31, 1872 in Zanesville, Ohio, United States. Zane died on October 23, 1939 at the age of 67 in Altadena, California.
Zane Grey was a prolific writer whose romantic novels of the American West largely created a new literary genre, the western. Trained as a dentist, Grey practiced in New York City from 1898 to 1904, when he published privately a novel of pioneer life, Betty Zane, based on an ancestor’s journal.
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Zane Grey, the greatest storyteller of the American West, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872. His Zane ancestors had been vigorous, illustrious pioneers in America's "First West", the historic Ohio Valley, and his boyhood thrill at their adventures would eventually motivate Grey to novelize both his family's own story and the ...
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- October 23, 1939
- January 31, 1872
- Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
- The Last Trail.
- The Rainbow Trail ( Riders of the Purple Sage, #2)
- The Lone Star Ranger.
On 0ctober 23,1939 Zane Grey died of a heart attack in Altadena, California where the couple made their final home together. Zane Grey’s legacy lives on embracing generation after generation of readers across the United States and around the world.
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Zane Grey has 1831 books on Goodreads with 152296 ratings. Zane Grey’s most popular book is Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1).
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