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Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957). [1]
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Alan LeMay was a published American screenplay writer, novelist, and short story author. Alan was born on June 3, 1899 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents were Maude Brown and John LeMay.
Alan Brown Le May was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers and The Unforgiven. They were adapted into the motion pictures "The Searchers" and "The Unforgiven".
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- April 27, 1964
- June 3, 1899
Apr 15, 2019 · A question came in recently from a True West reader about the premise of Alan Le May’s great novel, The Searchers, the story of a middle-aged Civil War Veteran who spends five years searching for his young niece, who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians.
Alan Le May was a novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter, although today he may be best remembered for his novels which served as the basis for two classic westerns, The Searchers (1956) and The Unforgiven (1960).
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- January 3, 1899
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- April 27, 1964
Mar 5, 2013 · Alan Le May was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and attended Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, in 1916. In 1918 he registered for the World War I draft in Aurora, and then enlisted and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
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May 13, 2013 · Alan Le May's 1954 novel is a timeless work of western fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American frontier. It explores the fear and the hatred that underpinned the lives of both the white settlers and the Native Americans.
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