Stan Paregien, Editor
Kerry Newcomb
Kerry Newcomb was born in Milford, Conn. on Dec. 7, 1946. He received his B.A. in 1969 from the University of Texas at Arlington and his M.F.A. in 1973 from Trinity University in San Antonio. He married Patricia Blackwell in 1976. Since 1974 he has earned his living by writing plays and novels, entertaining as a singer, and directing plays.
He and Frank Schaefer have written many novels together under their own names and joint pen names. Under their own names, Newcomb and Schaefer wrote Pandora Man (1979) and The Ghosts of Elkhorn (1982). Newcomb has written Texas Anthem and Texas Born (both by NAL) under the name of James Reno.
Under the name of Peter Gentry, Kerry Newcomb and Schaefer have written Rafe (1976), Titus Gamble (1978), Matanza (1979) and King of the Golden Gate (1981).Under the name of Shana Carrol, they have written Paxton Pride (1976), Raven (1978) and Yellow Rose. And under the name of Christina Savage, they have written Love's Wildest Fires (1977), Dawn Wind (1979) and Tempest (1982).
Lyle Newman
Lyle Newman is a singer, songwriter and musician (guitar, mandolin) who lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He was born and reared on a farm that was homesteaded by his grandmother.
Lyle Newman started playing the guitar and writing music in 1976. After working in commercial Country/Western music for several years, he shifted emphasis to cowboy music in 1989. In 1990 he was invited to represent the state of South Dakota at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Other shows that he participated in included Red Owl, S.D., Rapid City, S.D., Medora, N.D., Huellet, WY., Alliance, NE., Valentine, NE., Custer Sate Park, Custer, S.D., Keystone, S.D., and Rapid City, S.D.
In 1990, Lyle was a regular on the Black Hills Opry (Piedmont, S.D.) and was dubbed "South Dakota's Singing Cowboy". He has written several pieces of cowboy poetry as well as many cowboy songs, drawing from his many years of experience in farming & ranching.
He is a member of the singing group, The Oklahoma Company Cowboys. CLICK HERE to go to their home web site.
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman, actor, was born on Jan. 26, 1925 in Shaker Heights, OH. 5' 9" He graduated from high school in 1943. He worked at odd jobs, even selling encyclopedias door-to-door, before joining the Naval Air Corps. He washed out of the pilot training program, though, when they found out he was color-blind.
So Newman joined the regular navy. He served in the South Pacific during World War II. Upon his discharge, he went to Kenyon College in Ohio. He played football, and studied acting and literature. He graduated in 1949.
In 1949 he met and married Jackie Witte. They had a son, Scott. And soon Paul was enrolled at Yale University's graduate program in acting. He and Jackie had two daughters during this period.
From graduate school, he went directly to Broadway. He got parts in plays and in TV dramas. And he was accepted to the Actor's Studio school. It didn't take long for Hollywood to discover the man with the famous blue eyes. He got his first movie contract in 1954.
It was in 1957 that he met actress Joanne Woodward. He divorced Jackie and married Joanne on Jan. 29, 1958. That same year of 1958 saw him receive the first of his six Best Actor Oscar nominations, this one for his role in the movie, "CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF". He finally won an Oscar in 1987 for his role in "The Color of Money".
Paul Newman, Katherine Ross and
Robert Redford in one of the most popular
Westerns of the 20th century.
Paul Newman's Western films include "The Left Handed Gun" (1958), "Hud" (1963), "Hombre" (1967), "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" (1972) and "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" (1976).
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Muriel N. Newsome
Muriel N. Newsome first joined the Western Writers of America in about 1953, when her name was Muriel Evans. She used the pseudonym of Ed Newsom when writing Westerns. She is the author of 11 books.
Bobby Newton
Newton was born in Ardmore, Okla., and has never strayed far--at least not for long--from that roost. He received his B.S. in engineering from the University of Oklahoma, then taught school for twelve years.
Bobby Newton now lives on the family ranch near Gene Autry, OK. He has had a syndicated humor column for several years. He is the editor and publisher of the cowboy-oriented bi-monthly magazine, Rope Burns, P.O. Box 35, Gene Autry, OK 73436.
Newton is also the driving force behind the formation and on-going success of the Academy of Western Artists organization. They have a big awards ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas each July.
D.B. Newton
Newton was born in 1916 at Kansas City, Mo. He received his A.B. and M.A. degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1940 and 1942, respectively.
D.B. Newton first tried his hand at writing westerns at the ripe old age of nine. And all during high school he wrote and mailed his stories off to publishers, only to have them returned with standard rejection slips. He was busy in college when on April 30, 1938, he received a check for a novelette that he had sent to Red Circle. He said of that moment, "I rushed to the nearest newsstand. My novelette was the last story in the book. By any standard it would have to be the worst Western published in 1938. Happily I didn't think so. Seeing my brainchild transmuted into type was enough. I had broken into print--at last!" (The Roundup, Nov., 1971).
D.B. Newton began writing for the old "pulp" magazines in 1938. He moved to Oregon in 1943, and ater his discharge from the Army in 1946 he became a full-time freelance writer. He wrote 175 novelettes and short stories before that market began to dry up. In 1946 he also began writing novels, and kept that up until 1979. He sold his first two books to Phoenix Press and his third to Pocket Books. "By a fluke," he says, "that book became the first original paperback novel--it sold 450,000 copies."
D.B. Newton has written both adventure and Western fiction under his own name and the pen names of Dwight Bennett (his "best books," he says), Dan Temple, Ford Logan, Hank Mitchum and Clement Hardin.
His books include Guns of the Rimrock (1946), The Gunmaster of Saddleback (1948), Range Boss (1949), Shotgun Guard (1950), Six-Gun Gamble (1951), Guns Along the Wickiup (1953), Rainbow Rider (1954), Fire in the Desert (1954), The Outlaw Breed (1955), Maverick Brand (1962), On the Dodge (1962), The Love Goddess (1962), Guns of Warbonnett (1963), The Savage Hills (1964), Bullets in the Wind (1964), Fury at Three Forks (1964), The Manhunters (1966), Hideout Valley (1967), The Tabbart Brand (1967), Shotgun Freighter (1968), The Wolf Pack (1968), The Judas Horse (1969), Syndicate Gun (1972), Massacre Valley (1973), Range Tramp (1973), Trail of the Bear (1975), The Land Grabbers (1975), Bounty on Bannister (1975), Broken Spur (1977).
Under the name of Hank Mitchum, Newton wrote several of the "Station" series, including Station 1: Dodge City (1982) and Station 2: Laredo (1982).
Under the name of Dan Temple, Newton wrote Outlaw River (1955), The Man from Idaho (1956), Bullet Lease (1957),and Gun and Star (1964). Under the name of Clement Hardin, Newton wrote Hellbent for a Hangrope (1954), Cross Me in Gunsmoke (1957), The Lurking Gun (1961), The Badge Shooters (1962), Outcast of Ute Bend (1965), The Ruthless Breed (1966), The Paxman Feud (1967), The Oxbow Deed (1967), Ambush Reckoning (1968), Sheriff of Sentinel (1969), Colt Wages (1970), Stage Line to Rincon (1971).
Under his own name, Newton wrote Stormy Range (1951), Range Feud (1953), Lost Wolf River (1954), Border Graze (1952), Top Hand (1955), The Avenger (1956), Cherokee Outlet (1961), The Oregon Rifles (1962), Rebel Trail (1963), Crooked River Canyon (1966), Legend in the Dust (1970), The Big Land (1972), The Guns of Ellsworth (1973), Hangman's Knot (1975), The Cheyenne Encounter (1976), West of Railhead (1977), The Texans (1979), Disaster Creek (1981).
From 1957 to 1960, he took time out from writing novels to have a fling in Hollywood when Westerns were very big. He served as a rewrite man on "Tales of Wells Fargo," as an original writer and story consultant on NBC's "Wagon Train," and story consultant on "Death Valley Days." After three years he returned to writing novels. Then from 1979 to 1986, he concentrated on book packaging. Newton wrote, "When conglomerates and cutbacks emasculated the market for freelance novels, I finally signed a contract with Book Creations, Inc. and Bantam to do the `Stagecoach' Series under the name of `Hank Mitchum'. When it turned out Bantam wanted six books a year I agreed to let other writers take up the slack. It was a strange way of operating but the pay was better than I could get on the open market, and I stuck it out for six years. As I neared my 70th birthday, with a total of 70 books behind me under all my various pen names, I decided that was a good, round number to quit on and I retired."
He was one of the six co-founders of the Western Writers of America. He served as the organization's first secretary-treasurer from 1953 to 1963, and then did the same job from 1967 to 1971. I was priviledged to meet D.B. Newton during the Western Writers of America convention in Portland, Oregon in 1989. He was on a panel with Bill Gulick and Tommy Thompson, and they discussed "Western Writing, the Early Years."
Janet Neugebauer
Walt McDonald and Janet Neugebauer won a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2000 for their book of poetry, Whatever the Wind Delivers.
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
--- Bible: I Corinthians 13:1
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