Jon Sharpe (April 29, 1920 - November 3, 2004)
was the original author of
The Trailsman series of
Western novels. The century series, which has run since the early 1980s, was created by author Jon Messmann, who wrote most of the first 200 books in the series under the Jon Sharpe pseudonym until his retirement in the late 1990s (Messmann died in 2004).
The Trailsman series still uses Jon Sharpe as a house name covering various ghostwriters (among them
David Robbins,
Robert J Randisi,
J. B. Keller,
Bill Crider
Bill Crider (July 28, 1941 – February 12, 2018) was an American author of crime fiction among other work.
Biography
Crider received a Master of Arts degree at the University of North Texas, in Denton. Later, he taught English at Howard Payne ...
,
Ed Gorman,
Will C. Knott,
Robert Vardeman,
John Edward Ames, and
James Reasoner) under contract with the publisher. These books are best described as "adult" Westerns with lots of action.
Another series created by Messmann,
Canyon O'Grady, was also attributed to Sharpe.
References
1920 births
2004 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American writers
Western (genre) writers
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