Louis L'Amour (1908–1988)
Autor/a de Last of the Breed
Sobre l'autor
Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour's adventurous life could have been the subject of one of his novels. Striking out on his own in 1923, at age 15, L'Amour began a peripatetic existence, taking whatever jobs were available, from skinning dead cattle to being a sailor. mostra'n més L'Amour knew early in life that he wanted to be a writer, and the experiences of those years serve as background for some of his later fiction. During the 1930s he published short stories and poetry; his career was interrupted by army service in World War II. After the war, L'Amour began writing for western pulp magazines and wrote several books in the Hopalong Cassidy series using the pseudonym Tex Burns. His first novel, Westward the Tide (1950), serves as an example of L'Amour's frontier fiction, for it is an action-packed adventure story containing the themes and motifs that he uses throughout his career. His fascination with history and his belief in the inevitability of manifest destiny are clear. Also present and typical of L'Amour's work are the strong, capable, beautiful heroine who is immediately attracted to the equally capable hero; a clear moral split between good and evil; reflections on the Native Americans, whose land and ways of life are being disrupted; and a happy ending. Although his work is somewhat less violent than that of other western writers, L'Amour's novels all contain their fair share of action, usually in the form of gunfights or fistfights. L'Amour's major contribution to the western genre is his attempt to create, in 40 or more books, the stories of three families whose histories intertwine as the generations advance across the American frontier. The novels of the Irish Chantry, English Sackett, and French Talon families are L'Amour's most ambitious project, and sadly were left unfinished at his death. Although L'Amour did not complete all of the novels, enough of the series exists to demonstrate his vision. L'Amour's strongest attribute is his ability to tell a compelling story; readers do not mind if the story is similar to one they have read before, for in the telling, L'Amour adds enough small twists of plot and detail to make it worth the reader's while. L'Amour fans also enjoy the bits of information he includes about everything from wilderness survival skills to finding the right person to marry. These lessons give readers the sense that they are getting their money's worth, that there is more to a L'Amour novel than sheer escapism. With over 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, L'Amour must be counted as one of the most influential writers of westerns in this century. He died from lung cancer on June 10, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, & was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are over 260 million copies of his books in print worldwide. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour: Four Complete Novels (The Tall Stranger, Kilkenny, Hondo, Showdown at Yellow Butte) (1980) 84 exemplars
Five Complete Novels Series II (Utah Blaine/Crossfire Trail/Heller With a Gun/Last Stand at Papago Wells/To Tame a… (1981) 72 exemplars
Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the… (2017) 64 exemplars
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4, Part 2: Adventure Stories (2006) 44 exemplars
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4, Part 1: Adventure Stories (2005) 43 exemplars
Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2: More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes from One of… (2019) 35 exemplars
Big Country, Volume 1: Stories of Louis L'Amour (Ride, You Tonto Raiders; and War Party) (2007) 23 exemplars
The Trail to Crazy Man: L'Amour's Original Version 22 exemplars
Sackett's Gold 13 exemplars
The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett,… (2014) 13 exemplars
GUNSMOKE AND MUSTANGS: The Louis L'Amour 4 Book Western Bundle - Riders Of The Dawn , Lit A Shuck For Texas, Trail… 10 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Trio of Tales: McQueen of the Tumbling K, Big Medicine, and Dutchman's Flat (2008) 7 exemplars
The Hopalong Cassidy Novels 4-Book Bundle: The Rustlers of West Fork, The Trail to Seven Pines, The Riders of High… (2014) 6 exemplars
The The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Coll Stories L'amour Vol Iii Frontier Stories v. 3 5 exemplars
The The Sackett Brand: The Sacketts: A Novel 5 exemplars
Long Ride Home: Stories 5 exemplars
THE KILKENNY SAGA 5 exemplars
Big Country, Vol. 2: Stories of Louis L'Amour (West of the Tularosa, Home in the Valley, and West Is Where the… (2009) 5 exemplars
Lonely on the Mountain: The Sacketts: A Novel 3 exemplars
Riding for the Brand/McQueen of the Tumbling K/Law of the Desert Born (Louis L'Amour Collector) (2000) 3 exemplars
Shalako - Son of a Wanted Man - Crossfire Trail - the Sackett Brand - Bowdrie - Fallon (1978) 3 exemplars
His Brother's Debt, Big Medicine & Turkey Feather Riders (Louis L'Amour Collector) (2000) 3 exemplars
Secret of Silver Springs 2 exemplars
Time-Life Book Digest: "I" is for Innocent | The Trail to Seven Pines | Who Killed My Daughter? | French Silk (1992) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
kid rodelo [Paperback] 2 exemplars
The Romance of Piute Bill [Illustrated] 2 exemplars
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: The First Fast Draw, Kid Rodelo, How the West Was Won, The Proving Trail,… (1967) 2 exemplars
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: Dutchman's Flat, Bowdrie's Law, Silver Canyon, Fallon and Shadow… (1975) 2 exemplars
In An Old Temple 2 exemplars
Une fille sur la piste 2 exemplars
A Honra dos Sackett 2 exemplars
Louis lamour 2 exemplars
Kerbouchard, der Sohn des Korsaren. Roman. 2 exemplars
One Night Stand 2 exemplars
The Strong Land: A Western Sextet 2 exemplars
Riders of the Dawn: A Western Duo 2 exemplars
il grande solitario 2 exemplars
Best of Louis L'Amour: Keep Travelin/Riding for the Brand/Four Card Draw/Desert Death Song (1998) 2 exemplars
Projekt Makatozi 2 exemplars
The Hand of Kuan-yin 2 exemplars
Down the Long Hills 2 exemplars
Making It the Hard Way 2 exemplars
A Montanha Do Tesouro Livro 1 2 exemplars
Sackett's Short Stories 2 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Short Stories vol 1 2 exemplars
A Gift of Cochise 2 exemplars
We Shaped the Land with Our Guns [Annotated]: 21 Classic L'Amour Western Short Stories and Novelettes (1995) 2 exemplars
The Defense Of Sentinel 2 exemplars
Hillside Homicide 1 exemplars
Mojave Crossing The Sacketts 6 by Louis L'Amour 1 exemplars
With These Hands: Selected Unabridged Stories 1 exemplars
Un uomo chiamato Mezzogiorno 1 exemplars
Fuochi sulle colline 1 exemplars
The Road to Casa Piedras: A Chick Bowdrie Story 1 exemplars
Una donna fuori posto 1 exemplars
North to the rails 1 exemplars
The Broken Gun: A Novel 1 exemplars
Vtg The Outlaws Of Mesquite - Louis L'Amour 1 exemplars
La conquista del Oeste 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: Chancy, Utah Blaine, Kiowa Trail, Rider of Lost Creek and West from… 1 exemplars
Showdown on the Hogback 1 exemplars
Law of the Desert Born: Stories 1 exemplars
l'erede del bandito 1 exemplars
The high graders 1 exemplars
The Man Called Moon 1 exemplars
Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid 1 exemplars
End of the Drive: Stories (Sacketts Book 7) 1 exemplars
Temmers van die Woestyn 1 exemplars
Begrav de döda 1 exemplars
Hunted Mesa 1 exemplars
The Far Mountains 1 exemplars
Shaughnessy -the iron marshall Louis Lamour 1 exemplars
Bloed op die Water 1 exemplars
Man Alleen 1 exemplars
Net Vriende Bly Leef 1 exemplars
The Rider of the Ruby Hill- Showdown Trail-a Man Called Trent-the Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon 4 Books in 1 1 exemplars
Guldfloden 1 exemplars
Manden uden fortid 1 exemplars
Kamp på liv og død 1 exemplars
Hævnens vej 1 exemplars
Duel i ørkenen 1 exemplars
Drama i vildmarken 1 exemplars
Det blodige opgør 1 exemplars
Lost Trails 1 exemplars
Guns of the timberlands : a Western 1 exemplars
Fair blows the wind 1 exemplars
n Graf vir twee 1 exemplars
A Trilha dos fora-da-lei 1 exemplars
The Diamond Of Jehru 1 exemplars
Over On AThe Dry Side 1 exemplars
Warrior's Path, The - Sacketts # 15 1 exemplars
Sackett # 4 1 exemplars
Lonely on the Mountain # 16 1 exemplars
Trap of Gold & Hattan's Castle 1 exemplars
The Sacketts (Vol 3) 1 exemplars
THE SACKETTS NOVELS OF LOUIS L'AMOUR, Volume 1 1 exemplars
Courage on the Frontier Box Set: 'One For the Mohave Kid', 'The Strong Shall Live', 'Lonigan' (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Black Rock Coffin Makers, The - A Mule for Santa Fe - Case Closed: No Prisoners (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Trail to the West, A (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Town No Guns Could Tame, The (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid 1 exemplars
Sixth Shotgun, The (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Riders of the Tumbling K 1 exemplars
Mule for Santa Fe, A (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Marshal of Sentinel, The (Dramatization) 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Collection Two 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Collection Three 1 exemplars
Killer from the Pecos, The (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Killer from the Pecos, The - Lit a Shuck for Texas - The Turkeyfeather Riders (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Collection One 1 exemplars
Ghost of Buckskin Run, The 1 exemplars
Os Homens Que Vieram De Madrugada Os sacketts-3 1 exemplars
The Rustlers of West Fork 1 exemplars
The Lion Hunter and the Lady 1 exemplars
Um Homem da Pradaria Livro 1 1 exemplars
Confronto no Deserto Livro 1 1 exemplars
Sackett - O Indomável Livro 1 1 exemplars
A Terra de Sackett Os sacketts 1 exemplars
Catlow[CATLOW (R)][Mass Market Paperback] 1 exemplars
Valley of The Sun 1 exemplars
Monument Rock 1 exemplars
Road to Casas Piedras, The 1 exemplars
Ranger Rides to Town, A (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Gun for Kilkenny, A (Dramatized) 1 exemplars
Four by L'Amour (Dramatized): No Man's Man, Get Out of Town, McQueen of the Tumbling K, Booty for a Bad Man 1 exemplars
Bivacco sulla neve 1 exemplars
Mustang Man 1 exemplars
The Sackett Novels of Louis L'Amour Volume I: Sackett's Land; To the Far Blue Mountains; The Warrior's… 1 exemplars
Down the long hills 1 exemplars
The Walking Drum 1 exemplars
Last Stand at Papago Wells, by Louis L'Amour, Fawcett Gold Medal mass market paperback, K1757 1 exemplars
To the Far Blue Mountains(Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Sackett Novel (Sacketts Book 2) 1 exemplars
Sackett, O Indomável 1 exemplars
By Louis L'Amour Law of the Desert Born (The Louis L'Amour Collection) (Louis L'Amour Hardcover… 1 exemplars
Guns of the Timberland 1 exemplars
Tales from the Trail 1 exemplars
The Warrior's Path: The Sacketts: A Novel 1 exemplars
Borden Chantry (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures) 1 exemplars
Shalako By Louis L'amour (paperback) 1 exemplars
Lunga fuga 1 exemplars
The Cherokee Trail 1 exemplars
Der ruf des waldes 1 exemplars
LOUIS L'AMOUR COLLECTION - Set Of 6 Books - The Lonely Men - Flint - The Burning Hills - The Lonesome Gods - The… (1981) 1 exemplars
Le canon de la folle 1 exemplars
Cowboy Stories 1 exemplars
The Frontier Series Volume 1 1 exemplars
The Trail To Crazy Land 1 exemplars
The Collected Short Stories of Louis Lamour 1 exemplars
The Stakes can Kill Ya 1 exemplars
The Math Teacher 1 exemplars
A Trail Gone Cold 1 exemplars
Jacob Sackett 1 exemplars
Ride or Start Shootin' 1 exemplars
Kaukana siintävät vuoret 1 exemplars
Collected Short Stories, Frontier Stories - The Strong Shall Live Buckskin Run, Ear Party 1 exemplars
To Make a Stand 1 exemplars
Hirtetyn naisen joki 1 exemplars
The Sea Off Vanua Levu 1 exemplars
In This Is Beauty 1 exemplars
Ship Across The Sky 1 exemplars
McVey 1 exemplars
Collectors Series 1 exemplars
Blackjack Ketchum, desperado [Motion picture] 1 exemplars
I Came To Create 1 exemplars
Lines To a Season 1 exemplars
My Three Friends 1 exemplars
I Shall Go Back 1 exemplars
I Haven't Read Gone With The Wind 1 exemplars
In Protest 1 exemplars
Stranger on horseback [Motion picture] 1 exemplars
Question 1 exemplars
A Wail From a Pulpeteer 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Collector's Edition: Desert Death Song / Big Medicine / Dutchman's Flat / His Brother's Debt / Keep… (1999) 1 exemplars
Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail / Down Sonara Way: A Chick Bowdrie Story (Louis L'Amour) (2001) 1 exemplars
Old Jerry 1 exemplars
Picture 1 exemplars
The Fighting Four 1 exemplars
The Gladiator 1 exemplars
Decadence 1 exemplars
Life 1 exemplars
Biography in Stone 1 exemplars
An Ember in the Dark 1 exemplars
Nocturne 1 exemplars
Wings over the Waves 1 exemplars
A Handful of Stars 1 exemplars
Winter 1 exemplars
Secret Pass 1 exemplars
Banked Fires 1 exemplars
North Cape 1 exemplars
To You, Jeannine 1 exemplars
Love Out of Season 1 exemplars
After Tomorrow 1 exemplars
Yacodhapura 1 exemplars
Steppe 1 exemplars
To Giordano Bruno 1 exemplars
The Weary One 1 exemplars
Hildebrand 1 exemplars
Call of the Tropics 1 exemplars
The Pioneer 1 exemplars
Without This Land 1 exemplars
Where There's Fighting 1 exemplars
Trail to Squaw Springs 1 exemplars
Author's Tea 1 exemplars
A Friend of the General 1 exemplars
The Man who Stole Shakespeare 1 exemplars
Shanghai Not Without Gestures 1 exemplars
The Admiral 1 exemplars
Thicker than Blood 1 exemplars
Glorious! 1 exemplars
The Dancing Kate 1 exemplars
Duffy's Man 1 exemplars
South of Suez 1 exemplars
Well of the Unholy Light 1 exemplars
The House of Qasavara 1 exemplars
From Here to Banggai 1 exemplars
On the Road to Amurang 1 exemplars
East of Gorontalo 1 exemplars
Hattan's Castle 1 exemplars
Big Man 1 exemplars
The Sacketts: To the Far Blue Mountains The Daybreakers Mojave Crossing The Sackett Brand The Lonely Men (1990) 1 exemplars
Let Me Forget 1 exemplars
Tranquillity 1 exemplars
Twilight 1 exemplars
Forest People 1 exemplars
Winter Winds 1 exemplars
Let It Snow 1 exemplars
Then Comes Spring 1 exemplars
Rain 1 exemplars
Mutation 1 exemplars
To One Without Faith 1 exemplars
Rose of Memory 1 exemplars
Bluff Creek Station 1 exemplars
The Running Hills 1 exemplars
Alkali Basin 1 exemplars
Men to Match the Hills 1 exemplars
Calloway 1 exemplars
Marshal of Canyon Gap 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: Under the Sweetwater Rim, Hondo, The Rider of the Ruby Hills (and other… (1970) 1 exemplars
Home is the Hunter 1 exemplars
Rain on the Halfmoon 1 exemplars
THE CHEROKEE TRAIL, DOWN THE LONG HILLS, LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN, PASSIN THROUGH, RIDE THE DARK TRAIL, RIVERS WEST. (1900) 1 exemplars
Stage to Willowspring 1 exemplars
To Hang Me High 1 exemplars
The Sackett Novels: Galloway; The Sky-liners; The Man from Broken Hills; Ride the Dark Trail 1 exemplars
A Man Named Utah 1 exemplars
Battle at Burnt Camp 1 exemplars
Ironwood Station 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: North to the Rail, End of the Drive, High Lonesome, Long Ride Home and Off the… (1970) 1 exemplars
Here Ends the Trail 1 exemplars
Last Day in Town 1 exemplars
The Man from the Dead Hills 1 exemplars
West of Dry Creek 1 exemplars
Sackett's Land - Daisy CD Audiobook 1 exemplars
all works 1 exemplars
La terra dei Sackett 1 exemplars
Paperback 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Appointment Book 2002, The 1 exemplars
Trail to Pie Town 1 exemplars
Beyond the Chaparral 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Collection - Set of 12 Volumes - Leatherette Hardcover Books (The Louis L'Amour Collection) (1981) 1 exemplars
Poetry Society of Oklahoma : State Anthology (Let Me Remember, Interlude: Hong Kong Harbor) (1936) 1 exemplars
A Husband for Janey 1 exemplars
The Passing of Rope Nose 1 exemplars
The Louis Lamour Collection (8 Volumes) Leather Bound Edition (Volumes Included: The Key-Lock Man, West of Dodge,… (1984) 1 exemplars
the sackett novels of louis l' Amor Volume II 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Short Stories vol 2 1 exemplars
The Man from the Bitter Sands 1 exemplars
Let the Cards Decide 1 exemplars
Riches Beyond Dreams 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour - Five Softbound Books: Buckskin Run, Bendigo Shafter, Valley of the Sun, West From Singapore, and Son of… (1981) 1 exemplars
Noi Sackett 1 exemplars
The Last Frontier 1 exemplars
Sackettien perintö 1 exemplars
Man nennt mich Hondo / Allein in der Wildnis / Sein Name war Flint. 3 Romane in einem Band. (1991) 1 exemplars
The Sackett Stories 1 exemplars
Out of the Ocean Depths Soundlessly Moving 1 exemplars
Interlude: Hongkong Harbor 1 exemplars
Words From a Wanderer 1 exemplars
To Cleone: In Budapest 1 exemplars
I'm a Stranger Here 1 exemplars
Piritetty karjatila 1 exemplars
Roundup in Texas 1 exemplars
Friend of a Hero 1 exemplars
The Cactus Kid 1 exemplars
The Ghost Fighter 1 exemplars
Wings over Brazil 1 exemplars
The Sackett Saga: Volume 1-5 1 exemplars
The Vanished Blonde 1 exemplars
By the Waters of San Tadeo 1 exemplars
Meeting at Falmouth 1 exemplars
Poklad 1 exemplars
Sideshow Champion 1 exemplars
Louis L'Amour Westerns - Trail to Pie Town, Mistakes Can Kill You, Black Rock Coffin Makers (2000) 1 exemplars
Crash Landing 1 exemplars
Under the Hanging Wall 1 exemplars
Coast Patrol 1 exemplars
The Gravel Pit 1 exemplars
The Money Punch 1 exemplars
Obres associades
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Col·laborador — 104 exemplars
Catlow [1971 film] — Original book — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- LaMoore, Louis Dearborn (birth name)
Burns, Tex
Mayo, Jim - Data de naixement
- 1908-03-22
- Data de defunció
- 1988-06-10
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Jamestown, North Dakota, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Causa de la mort
- cancer (lung)
- Llocs de residència
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educació
- self-educated
- Professions
- novelist
gold miner
merchant seaman
professional boxer - Relacions
- L'Amour, Angelique (daughter)
L'Amour, Beau (son) - Organitzacions
- WPA Writers Project
- Premis i honors
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)
Congressional Gold Medal (1982)
Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Award (1972)
Saddleman Award (1981)
National Book Award (1979) - Biografia breu
- Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908. He left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs. In 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.
Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 804
- També de
- 11
- Membres
- 82,730
- Popularitat
- #145
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 1,030
- ISBN
- 3,293
- Llengües
- 21
- Preferit
- 103