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Jean Mead
Jean Mead did an interview with Lewis L'Amour in the May, 1985 issue of The Roundup. She is the author of two nonfiction books, Wyoming in Profile (Pruett, 1982) and Casper Country (Pruett Publishing Company, 1987).
Herb Meadow
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Herb Meadow became a radio announcer and migrated west. Along the way he became an outstanding film and TV scriptwriter.Herb Meadow's TV credits include "The Lone Ranger" (producer and writer), "Have Gun/Will Travel" (co-creator and writer), and writer for episodes of "Rawhide," "The Virginian," and "The Big Valley".
Herb Meadow's film credits include scripts for "The Master of Ballantrae", starring Errol Flynn; "The Strange Woman", starring Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders; "Stranger on Horseback," starring Joel McCrea; "Redhead from Wyoming," starring Maureen O'Hara; "The Lone Ranger," starring Clayton Moore; "Ruthless," starring Zachary Scott; and many more.
He is also the author of a children's musical, "The Man Who Stole the Word Beautiful".
Ann Meadows
Ann Meadows is a contributing editor to South American Explorer. She is a co-author and contributor to Digging Up Butch and Sundance (St. Martin's Press, 1994).
Gary E. Meier
Gary E. Meier supports his writing career by working as a legal investigator. He has written articles for Oregon Coast Magazine, True West, and Western Horseman. He is the author of Knights of the Whip: Stagecoach Days in Oregon.
Helen M. Meinzer
(Deceased)
Helen M. Meinzer was born Helen M. Abbott in Twin Falls, Idaho, and graduated from the University of Idaho, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Helen married George Meinzer in Moscow, Idaho. They moved to Tucson in 1947, and that was when she began her writing career.Helen M. Meinzer used the name "A.C. Abbott" to write two Western novels and over 100 short stories and novelettes. One of her stories was printed in A Saddlebag of Tales, a Western Writers of America-sponsored juvenile anthology. Two more of her stories were printed in WWA's adult anthology, Legends and Tales of the Old West. She died at her home in Tucson on March 22, 1963.
Jacqueline Dorgan Meketa
Jacqueline Dorgan Meketa is the author of three non-fiction books: One Blanket and Ten Days' Rations (Southwest Parks and Monuments Association), Louis Felsenthal, Citizen Soldier of Territorial New Mexico (University of N.M. Press, 1982), and is the Legacy of Honor, Ralphel Chaon (University of N.M. Press, 1986). She also writes for Old West and Real West magazines.
Doris R. Meredith
Doris R. Meredith owned a bookstore in Dumas, Texas until she was able to devote her full-time to writing. Meredith is the author of The Sheriff and the Branding Iron Murders (Walker & Co., 1985), The Sheriff and the Panhandle Murders (Avon, 1984), The Sheriff and the Folsom Man Murders (Walker and Co., 1987), Murder by Impulse and Murder by Deception (Ballentine Books). She uses the pen name of D.R. Meredith, and her agent is Pat Teal.Regarding her book, Murder by Deception, Doris R. Meredith says: "I've adjusted to being wife, mother, and crime novelist. I never expected to be a prophet, too, but it seems I am. Who could have predicted that I would be the first to write realistically of nuclear waste pollution and the Department of Energy's irresponsible behavior in a fiction book? Who could have predicted that my charges that the DOE was less than open and honest about the dangers of nuclear pollution would be vindicated by recent investigations at Rocky Flats in Colorado? Who could have predicted that nuclear facilities would actually be closed down because they were unsafe? Certainly not me. I actually wrote that book two years ago (1987). I never expected my fictional possibilities to become factual probabilities."
Noted for the unusual ways her victims meet their fates, Doris R. Meredith has won two "Oppie" awards for the Best Mystery Novel in both 1984 and 1985. She was one of three Texas mystery writers invited to participate in the Governor's Sesquicentennial Conference on the Literary arts. Since 1989, she has edited a column on western literature in the Roundup Quarterly.
Howard Meredith
Howard Meredith was born on May 25, 1938. He married in 1967, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He is head of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (Chickasha, Okla.). And he is a Research Associate with Cookson Institute in Oklahoma City.Howard Meredith's articles have appeared in University of Texas Library Chronicle, Journal of the West, Great Plains Journal, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Labor History, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Filson Club Quarterly, Indian History, World Literature Today, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
Howard Meredith is also the author of Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy, with Vynola Newkumet (Texas A&M Press, 1988) and American Indian Tribal Government and Politics (Navajo College Press, 1989).
Howard Meredith is a member of WWA, the American Indian Historians Society, Oklahoma Historical Society, and the Cherokee National Historical Society. In 1980 he received the Murial H. Wright Endowment Award for Writing.
Scott Meredith
Scott Meredith was born in 1923. He established the Scott Meredith Literary Agency in New York City in 1942.Scott Meredith is the author of Writing to Sell (1950; 3rd ed., Harper & Row, 1974), Writing for the American Market (1960), The Kaufman Circle: The Life and Times of George S. Kaufman and His Friends (1974), The Science of Gaming (1974), and Louis B. Mayer and His Enemies (1983).
Scott Meredith also served as the editor of a series of collections of short Western stories, including Bar One: Roundup of Best Western Stories (Ayer Co., 1952), Bar Two: Roundup of Best Western Stories (Ayer Co., 1952), Bar Three: Roundup of Best Western Stories (Ayer Co., 1954), Bar Four: Roundup of Best Western Stories (Ayer Co.), Bar Five: Roundup of Best Western Stories (Ayer Co., 1956).
Les Wayne Merha
Lester Wayne Merha writes fiction for young adults. Using the pen name Les Wayne, he is the author of Arvada Jones and the Young Runaways (John Curley); Arvada Jones and the Orphans of the Trail; and West of Omaha.
Under his own name, Les Wayne Merha has written Outlaw's Grave (Bouregy, 1979), Cheyenne Manhunt (Dorchester, 1980), Kent Dell's Warpath (Bouregy, 1980), Roughshod Posse (Bouregy, 1981), Rider on Rattlesnake Hill (Bouregy, 1982), Long Trail to Devil's Pass (Bouregy, 1978).
Emma Merritt
Emma Merritt is the author of With All My heart (Dell, 1984) and Passionate Ultimatum (Dell, 1984).
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