Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer.
American novelist
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Alan Le May
Born
(1899-06-03)June 3, 1899 Indianapolis, Indiana
Died
April 27, 1964(1964-04-27) (aged64)
Occupation
Writer (novelist)
Nationality
American
Period
20th century
Genre
Western fiction
He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957).[1] They were adapted into the motion pictures The Searchers (1956; starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter, and directed by John Ford) and The Unforgiven (1960; starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, and directed by John Huston).
He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to John and Maude Brown Le May. His father was a public school teacher and his maternal grandfather (Daniel L. Brown, Sr.) and uncle (Daniel L. Brown, Jr.) were both lawyers. He first lived with his parents and uncle at his grandparents home at 3229 North Illinois Street in Indianapolis. He moved with his family, including his sister Elizabeth, to Aurora, Illinois as a teenager in the 1910s.
He attended Stetson University in DeLand, Florida in 1916. In 1918 he registered for the World War I draft in Aurora, and then enlisted and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. While attending the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree, he joined the Illinois National Guard. He was promoted to First Lieutenant Field Artillery for the Illinois National Guard in 1923.
He published his first novel, Painted Ponies, in 1927 (about the Cheyenne and the U. S. Cavalry horse soldiers).
Works
Novels
Painted Ponies (1927)
Old Father of Waters (1928)
Pelican Coast (1929)
One Of Us Is A Murderer (1930)
Gunsight Trail (1931)
Bug Eye (1931)
Winter Range (1932)
Cattle Kingdom (1933)
Thunder in the Dust (1934) - Adapted in The Sundowners, AKA Thunder in the Dust (1950), directed by George Templeton
Herzberg, Bob (2008). Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns, pp. 164-65. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc.
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