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Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
Zane Grey was a prolific writer whose romantic novels of the American West largely created a new literary genre, the western. Trained as a dentist, Grey practiced in New York City from 1898 to 1904, when he published privately a novel of pioneer life, Betty Zane, based on an ancestor’s journal.
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- October 23, 1939
- January 31, 1872
- Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
- The Last Trail.
- The Rainbow Trail ( Riders of the Purple Sage, #2)
- The Lone Star Ranger.
Zane Grey was one of the prominent authors of America who used to write his novels based on the western fiction genre. He was born as Pearl Zane Gray on January 31, 1872 in Zanesville, Ohio, United States. Zane died on October 23, 1939 at the age of 67 in Altadena, California.
Zane Pearl Grey. Pearl Zane Grey, the fourth in a family of five children, was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872. He was the son of itinerant dentist, Lewis Gray and Alice Zane Gray, and he was the great grandson of the famous trailblazer, Ebenezer Zane.
Those who’ve heard of Zane Grey usually identify him as the author of best-selling westerns, but few realize that he was the commercially most successful American author of the 1920s. Each year from 1915 to 1924, he had a new novel on the annual list of top-10 bestsellers.
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Zane Grey has 1869 books on Goodreads with 153423 ratings. Zane Grey’s most popular book is Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1).
