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Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950) was an American writer of Western fiction. Haycox in 1923
Ernest Haycox was an important figure in the development of the popular Western. Diligent, prolific, and ambitious, he wrote twenty-four novels, nearly three hundred short stories and serial installments, and dozens of essays.
Born Ernest James Haycox in Portland, Oregon on Oct. 1, 1899, in a house or apartment on lower Caruthers Street. There is no record of the event ( no announcements, no birth certificate. Save two years as a beginning writer in New York, he is a lifelong Portland resident and dies in the city on Oct. 13, 1950, several months after unsuccessful ...
When Ernest Haycox applied his University of Oregon journalism education to western literature, he reinvented the genre. In place of flowery bursts of sentiment and sensationalism, Haycox offered clear, lean, and active prose.
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Aug 12, 2022 · Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) was a native of Portland and successor to Zane Grey in the development of the western novel. He launched his career in the 1920s by writing pieces for pulp magazines. Free Grass, his first novel, brought out in 1929, established his reputation in the literary genre.
Feb 26, 2018 · Ernest Haycox died in 1950, but he continues to cast a long shadow over Western fiction. In Ernest Haycox and the Western (University Press of Oklahoma, $29.95), Richard W. Etulain gives us a literary history of the author’s work, with special emphasis on two.
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Haycox was a prolific writer who produced 24 novels and more than 200 short stories; his first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the early 1920s and '30s but later he was a regular contributor to many of the national magazines such as Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post.
