- Source: Wayne D. Overholser
Wayne D. Overholser (September 4, 1906, in Pomeroy, Washington – August 27, 1996, in Boulder, Colorado), was an American Western writer. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for Best Western Novel for Law Man using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. Law Man was made into the motion picture Star in the Dust, starring John Agar and Richard Boone (and Clint Eastwood in his first - uncredited - Western role), in 1956. In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land. He won the Spur Award for a third time in 1969 for his juvenile novel about the Meeker Massacre, with Lewis Patten. Three additional pseudonyms were John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne; combinations of his three sons' names.
In popular culture
Overholser was also referenced in Stephen King's novel Wolves of the Calla, part of King's Dark Tower, in which he was both mentioned explicitly, and is the namesake of a character in the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis.
Work
Collections
The Best Western Stories of Wayne D. Overholser (1984) aka The Best Western Stories
References
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- Wayne D. Overholser
- Overholser
- Lewis B. Patten
- List of Western fiction authors
- Cast a Long Shadow
- Wayne (given name)
- Spur Award for Best Western Novel
- Deaths in August 1996
- Bronco (TV series)
- List of Ace single volumes
