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O: AUTHORS
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 Plus __ non-author encyclopedia entries
 Updated 28 September 2003

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."


Dan O'Brien: Westerns author; also writes Mystery/Suspense;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Clint O'Connor: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Michael O'Connor: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Jeff O'Donnell: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Kristina O'Donnelly: Westerns author; also writes Mystery/Suspense;
     also writes Speculative Fiction;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Frederick C. Ogg: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Dennis O'Keefe: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Bruce Olds: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Michael R. O'Leary: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Chad Oliver: winner of the 1967 Spur Award
     of the Western Writers of America for
     Best Historical Novel: 
     * The Wolf is My Brother [New American Library]
  Chad[wick] [Symmes] Oliver
     scientist/anthropology professor/author, died 1993 age 65,
     best known as the leading science fiction writer on anthropological 
     themes, with novels including:
          * Giants in the Dust [Pyramid, 1976]
          * Shadows in the Sun [Ballentine Books, hardcover, 1954]
          * The Shores of Another Sea [Signet, 1971]
          * Unearthly Neighbors [Ballentine Books, 1960]
          * The Winds of Time [Doubleday, 1957; Science Fiction Book Club; 
               Pocket; Avon]
     as well as:
          * Another Kind [Ballentine Books, hardcover, 1954]
          * The Edge of Forever [Sherbourne, 1971] 6 stories
          * Mists of Dawn [Winston, 1952] juvenile
     and also wrote Western novels (winning a Western Writers of America Spur Award)
Chad Oliver: Index to at least 31 publications

Austin Olsen: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Theodore E. Olsen: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Jim O'Mara: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Reagan O'Neal & Robert Jordan: Westerns co-authors;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Glen Onley: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Jane Orcutt: Westerns author; also writes Romance;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Jackson O'Reilly & Robert Jordan: Westerns co-authors;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Frank O'Rourke: Westerns author;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

E. S. Osgood: winner of the 1964 Spur Award
     of the Western Writers of America for
     Best Nonfiction: 
     * Field Notes of Capt. William Clark [Yale University Press] 

John Milton Oskison (1874-1947): {to be done}
     [listed in Gale literary databases for Westerns]

Charles Oswald:
Charles Oswald home page

Stephen Overholser:
Stephen Overholser at readwest
     winner of the 1954 and 1974 Spur Awards
     of the Western Writers of America for
     Best Novel: 
     * The Violent Land [Macmillan] 1954
     * A Hanging In Sweetwater [Doubleday] 1974 
  winner of the 1969 Spur Award
     of the Western Writers of America for
     Best Juvenile Fiction: 
     * The Meeker Massacre [Cowles]
          co-authored by by Wayne Overholser and Lewis Patten 

Wayne D. Overholser: Westerns author; also writes Mystery/Suspense;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}

Wayne D. Overholser & John S. Daniels: Westerns co-authors;
  Novels Include:
     * {to be done}