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Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950) was an American writer of Western fiction. Haycox in 1923
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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.
Ernest Haycox was one of the prominent authors of the historical and western fiction genres, hailing from The United States. He was born on October 1, 1899; and died on October 13, 1950. Author Haycox’s birth had taken place in Portland, Oregon.
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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Ernest Haycox has 329 books on Goodreads with 2820 ratings. Ernest Haycox’s most popular book is Bugles in the Afternoon.
The Earthbreakers and The Adventurers, each set in Oregon, are published posthumously. His long-term fans included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, who wrote: "I read the Saturday Evening Post whenever it has a serial by Ernest Haycox."
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.
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