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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.
- Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1) Zane Grey.
- The Last Trail Zane Grey.
- The Rainbow Trail ( Riders of the Purple Sage, #2) Zane Grey.
- The Lone Star Ranger Zane Grey.
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.
Learn about the life and achievements of Zane Grey, the best-selling American author of the 1920s and a pioneer of western and adventure fiction. Discover his exploits as a dentist, a baseball player, a fisherman, and a lover of women.
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Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars [1] to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time".
