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F: AUTHORS
 1 names with links, 20 names/pseudonyms without links, 21 total
 Plus __ non-author encyclopedia entries
 Updated 24 August 2001

Western Writers of America defines "Western" as a genre as:

     "works dependent in whole or in part on settings, 
     characters, conditions, or customs indigenous to 
     the American West or early frontier."

     
Elizabeth Fackler: Westerns author {to be done}

Cliff Farrell: winner, 1969 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for
     Best Short Subject: 
     * "Westward to Blood and Glory" [Doubleday] 

Frederick Faust, full name Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944): 
     Westerns author (and many other genres), 
     writing under the pen name Max Brand.  See Max Brand.
Frederick Faust (Max Brand) -

Edna Ferber: major mainstream author; best-known Western novel:
     * Giant [September 2000] Paperback
            film hotlink {to be done}
  Other Westerns:
     * So Big [September 2000] Paperback   

Jim Fergus:
     * One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd
            [April 1998] Hardcover 

Aileen Fisher: winner of the 1966 Spur Award
     of the Western Writers of America for
     Best Juvenile Nonfiction: 
     * Valley of the Smallest [Crowell] 

Clay Fisher:
  Novels:
     * The TALL MAN Series (Ben Allison)
     * The Tall Man [1954]
     * The Crossing [1958]
     * Return of the Tall Man [1961]
     * Outcasts of Canyon Creek [1972]
     * Apache Ransom [1974]

Vardis Fisher: winner, 1965 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for
     Best Historical Novel: 
     * Mountain Man [Morrow]
          (tied with Gold in California by Todhunter Ballard [Doubleday])
  also, winner, 1968 Spur Award for
     Best Nonfiction: 
     * Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West 
          by Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes [Caxton] 

Robert Flynn: winner, 1987 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for Historical Novel: 
     * Wanderer Springs [TCU Press]

Franklin Folsom: winner, 1973 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for Juvenile Nonfiction: 
     * Red Power on the Rio Grande [Follett] 

Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) : {to be done}
     [listed in Gale literary databases for Westerns]

Gary L. Foreman: winner, 1999 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for Documentary Screenplay: Frontier: 
     * Legends of the Old Northwest [Arts & Entertainment/History Channel] 

Frank Fowler (1900-1971) : {to be done}
     [listed in Gale literary databases for Westerns]

Norman A. Fox: Westerns author {to be done}

Christopher Frayling:
  Nonfiction:
     * Spaghetti Westerns : Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone
            [Cinema and Society: December 1998] Paperback 

Ian Frazier: winner, 1989 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for Nonfiction: 
     * The Great Plains [Farrar Straus Giroux] 

Russell Freedman: winner, 1989 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for [Juvebile Nonfiction?]:
     * Crazy Horse [Holiday House] 

David Fremon : winner, 1994 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for Juvenile: 
     * A Trail of Tears [Silver Burdett Press] 

Michael Friedman:
  Nonfiction:
     * Cowboy Culture: The Last Frontier of American Antiques

Jean Fritz: winner, 1984 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for Juvenile: 
     * Make Way for Sam Houston [G.E. Putnam's] 

Francis L. Fugate: winner, 1984 Spur Award of the 
     Western Writers of America for Short Subject (Nonfiction): 
     * "Arbuckle's: The Coffee That Won the West" [The American West]