Louis L'Amour (29 page)
Authors: The Warrior's Path
Tags: #Western Stories, #Westerns, #Fiction, #Kidnapping, #Slave Trade, #Brothers, #Pequot Indians, #Sackett Family (Fictitious Characters), #Historical Fiction, #Indian Captivities, #Domestic Fiction, #Frontier and Pioneer Life
Mr. L'Amour “wanted to write almost from the time I could talk.” After developing a widespread following for his many frontier and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full-length novel,
Hondo
, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.
His hardcover bestsellers include
The Lonesome Gods, The Walking Drum
(his twelfth-century historical novel),
Jubal Sackett, Last of the Breed, and The Haunted Mesa.
His memoir,
Education of a Wandering Man
, was a leading bestseller in 1989. Audio dramatizations
and adaptations of many L'Amour stories are available on cassettes and CDs from Random House Audio publishing.
The recipient of many great honors and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist 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. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.
