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Louis L'Amour (1908–1988)

Auteur van Last of the Breed

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Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour's adventurous life could have been the subject of one of his novels. Striking out on his own in 1923, at age 15, L'Amour began a peripatetic existence, taking whatever jobs were available, from skinning dead cattle to being a sailor. toon meer L'Amour knew early in life that he wanted to be a writer, and the experiences of those years serve as background for some of his later fiction. During the 1930s he published short stories and poetry; his career was interrupted by army service in World War II. After the war, L'Amour began writing for western pulp magazines and wrote several books in the Hopalong Cassidy series using the pseudonym Tex Burns. His first novel, Westward the Tide (1950), serves as an example of L'Amour's frontier fiction, for it is an action-packed adventure story containing the themes and motifs that he uses throughout his career. His fascination with history and his belief in the inevitability of manifest destiny are clear. Also present and typical of L'Amour's work are the strong, capable, beautiful heroine who is immediately attracted to the equally capable hero; a clear moral split between good and evil; reflections on the Native Americans, whose land and ways of life are being disrupted; and a happy ending. Although his work is somewhat less violent than that of other western writers, L'Amour's novels all contain their fair share of action, usually in the form of gunfights or fistfights. L'Amour's major contribution to the western genre is his attempt to create, in 40 or more books, the stories of three families whose histories intertwine as the generations advance across the American frontier. The novels of the Irish Chantry, English Sackett, and French Talon families are L'Amour's most ambitious project, and sadly were left unfinished at his death. Although L'Amour did not complete all of the novels, enough of the series exists to demonstrate his vision. L'Amour's strongest attribute is his ability to tell a compelling story; readers do not mind if the story is similar to one they have read before, for in the telling, L'Amour adds enough small twists of plot and detail to make it worth the reader's while. L'Amour fans also enjoy the bits of information he includes about everything from wilderness survival skills to finding the right person to marry. These lessons give readers the sense that they are getting their money's worth, that there is more to a L'Amour novel than sheer escapism. With over 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, L'Amour must be counted as one of the most influential writers of westerns in this century. He died from lung cancer on June 10, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, & was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are over 260 million copies of his books in print worldwide. (Publisher Provided) toon minder

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The Walking Drum (1984) 1,369 exemplaren
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To the Far Blue Mountains (1976) 1,199 exemplaren
Sackett (1961) 1,182 exemplaren
The Daybreakers (1960) 1,167 exemplaren
The Lonesome Gods (1983) 1,141 exemplaren
Education of a Wandering Man (1989) 1,118 exemplaren
The Warrior's Path (1980) 1,090 exemplaren
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The Sackett Brand (1965) 943 exemplaren
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Lando (1962) 866 exemplaren
Mojave Crossing (1964) 838 exemplaren
Dodelijk spoor (1972) 835 exemplaren
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The Ferguson Rifle (1973) 715 exemplaren
The Cherokee Trail (1982) 711 exemplaren
Silver Canyon (1951) 707 exemplaren
The Iron Marshall (1979) 699 exemplaren
Reilly's Luck (1970) 699 exemplaren
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Son of a Wanted Man (1984) 689 exemplaren
How the West was Won (1962) 677 exemplaren
Fair Blows the Wind (1978) 674 exemplaren
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The Shadow Riders (1982) 668 exemplaren
The Man Called Noon (1970) 665 exemplaren
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The Californios (1974) 644 exemplaren
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Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957) 591 exemplaren
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Fallon (1963) 590 exemplaren
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High Lonesome (1962) 588 exemplaren
The Proving Trail (1979) 585 exemplaren
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The Empty Land (1969) 576 exemplaren
Over on the Dry Side (1975) 575 exemplaren
Under the Sweetwater Rim (1971) 573 exemplaren
Hanging Woman Creek (1964) 567 exemplaren
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End of the Drive (1997) 556 exemplaren
Kid rodelo (1966) 546 exemplaren
Brionne (1968) 545 exemplaren
The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990) 545 exemplaren
Matagorda (1967) 544 exemplaren
Kilkenny (1954) 542 exemplaren
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Buckskin Run (1981) 538 exemplaren
Shalako (1962) 535 exemplaren
Callaghen (1972) 535 exemplaren
Catlow (1962) 531 exemplaren
Rivers West (1975) 530 exemplaren
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Bowdrie's Law (1972) 525 exemplaren
The Trail to Seven Pines (1951) 522 exemplaren
Where the Long Grass Blows (1976) 514 exemplaren
War Party (1975) 504 exemplaren
Taggart (1959) 503 exemplaren
Kilrone (1966) 500 exemplaren
Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999) 496 exemplaren
The Strong Shall Live (1980) 487 exemplaren
Long Ride Home (1989) 483 exemplaren
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Law of the Desert Born (1946) 477 exemplaren
West of Dodge (1996) 471 exemplaren
The Riders of High Rock (1951) 471 exemplaren
Monument Rock (1998) 469 exemplaren
Off the Mangrove Coast (2000) 465 exemplaren
Dutchman's Flat (1986) 456 exemplaren
The Trail to Crazy Man (1986) 437 exemplaren
May There Be a Road (2001) 436 exemplaren
Riding for the Brand (1986) 434 exemplaren
Lonigan (1988) 433 exemplaren
Yondering (1980) 431 exemplaren
Valley of the Sun (1995) 423 exemplaren
The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986) 423 exemplaren
Trouble Shooter (1951) 417 exemplaren
With These Hands (2002) 410 exemplaren
The Hills of Homicide: Stories (1983) 379 exemplaren
Night Over the Solomons (1986) 337 exemplaren
West from Singapore (1987) 308 exemplaren
From the Listening Hills (2003) 278 exemplaren
Smoke from this Altar (1990) 218 exemplaren
The Sixth Shotgun (1949) 133 exemplaren
Frontier (1984) 133 exemplaren
A Man Called Trent (1965) 133 exemplaren
West of the Tularosa (1986) 116 exemplaren
Grub Line Rider (1951) 101 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 1 (1980) 101 exemplaren
Showdown Trail (1986) 95 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 3 (1980) 94 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 4 (1972) 92 exemplaren
The Shadow Riders [1982 TV movie] (1982) — Novel by — 87 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 2 (1980) 78 exemplaren
Big Medicine (1986) 75 exemplaren
No Traveller Returns (2018) 66 exemplaren
Man Riding West (1986) 58 exemplaren
The Lawless West (2007) 53 exemplaren
Trailing West (2008) 53 exemplaren
The Sky-Liners [and] Galloway (2008) 49 exemplaren
Mistakes Can Kill You (1986) 49 exemplaren
Riders of the Dawn (2006) 46 exemplaren
Desert Death-Song (1950) 46 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volume 5 (1985) 43 exemplaren
Radigan [and] North to the Rails (2008) 41 exemplaren
The Golden West (2003) 38 exemplaren
The Sacketts (1979) 38 exemplaren
Glory Riders (2011) 34 exemplaren
Showdown on the Hogback (2005) 33 exemplaren
Shalako/Catlow (2008) 32 exemplaren
Utah Blaine & Silver Canyon (2008) 29 exemplaren
The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon (1985) 27 exemplaren
Booty for a Bad Man (1991) 26 exemplaren
Lone Star Law (2005) 25 exemplaren
A Gun for Kilkenny (1986) 23 exemplaren
The Black Rock Coffin Makers (1950) 23 exemplaren
Lost Trails (2007) — Medewerker — 22 exemplaren
Lit a Shuck for Texas (1986) 20 exemplaren
McQueen of the Tumbling K (1986) 16 exemplaren
Rowdy Rides to Glory (1987) 16 exemplaren
Dead Ringer: A Western Trio (2019) 13 exemplaren
Sackett's Gold 13 exemplaren
The Turkeyfeather Riders (1986) 13 exemplaren
Showdown (2009) 11 exemplaren
The Strong Land: A Western Sextet (2012) 11 exemplaren
One For The Pot (1975) 11 exemplaren
Tales from the Old West (2005) 11 exemplaren
The Complete Sackett Family Saga (1985) 10 exemplaren
The Kilkenny Series Bundle (2015) 10 exemplaren
Keep Travelin', Rider (1986) 10 exemplaren
Bannon (2017) 10 exemplaren
Medicine Ground (Louis L'Amour) (1995) 8 exemplaren
Bowdrie Passes Through (1983) 8 exemplaren
Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail (1983) 8 exemplaren
The One for the Mohave Kid (1986) 8 exemplaren
The Killer From the Pecos (1983) 8 exemplaren
Unguarded Moment (1983) 8 exemplaren
A Job for a Ranger (1983) 8 exemplaren
The Diamond of Jeru (2000) 8 exemplaren
Ride, You Tonto Raiders! (1949) 8 exemplaren
A Trail to the West (1983) 7 exemplaren
No Man's Man (2000) 7 exemplaren
Bill Carey Rides West (1990) 7 exemplaren
Four-Card Draw (1986) 7 exemplaren
Down Sonora Way (1984) 7 exemplaren
L'Amour: a collection (2010) 7 exemplaren
Fork Your Own Broncs (1986) 7 exemplaren
Get Out of Town (Louis L'Amour) (1975) 7 exemplaren
Draw Straight: A Western Sextet (2020) 6 exemplaren
Survival (Louis L'Amour) (1999) 6 exemplaren
His Brother's Debt (1986) 6 exemplaren
The Nester and the Piute (1986) 6 exemplaren
No Trouble for the Cactus Kid (1947) 6 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour (1994) 6 exemplaren
The Courting of Griselda (1997) 6 exemplaren
That Triggernometry Tenderfoot (1989) 6 exemplaren
Horse Heaven (1950) 5 exemplaren
Where Buzzards Fly (1984) 5 exemplaren
MCNELLY KNOWS A RANGER (1984) 5 exemplaren
Lännen mies (1979) 5 exemplaren
THE KILKENNY SAGA 5 exemplaren
The Lion Hunter and the Lady (1986) 5 exemplaren
Dead Man's Trail (1983) 5 exemplaren
The Marshal of Sentinel (1995) 4 exemplaren
The Guns Talk Loud (1947) 4 exemplaren
Strange Pursuit (1984) 4 exemplaren
Death Song of the Sombrero (1947) 4 exemplaren
The Town No Guns Could Tame (1989) 4 exemplaren
L'envoi de l'aigle (1988) 4 exemplaren
Trail to Pie Town (1886) 4 exemplaren
Stay Out of My Nightmare (1983) 3 exemplaren
Sackett Family (1992) 3 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour Westerns 1 (CD) (2004) 3 exemplaren
Lamour Sackett 4C Box Set (1999) 3 exemplaren
Tales from the Trail (2007) 3 exemplaren
Dead-end Drift (1987) 3 exemplaren
One Last Gun Notch (1942) 3 exemplaren
Fighter's Fiasco (2002) 3 exemplaren
Guns of the Timberland [1960 film] (2014) — Novel — 3 exemplaren
Két szekér arany (1988) 3 exemplaren
Rock Bannon (1980) 2 exemplaren
Apache (1997) 2 exemplaren
Shandy Takes the Hook (1989) 2 exemplaren
In An Old Temple 2 exemplaren
Valley of the Sun (Dramatized) (2009) 2 exemplaren
Teksasin miehet tulevat (1983) 2 exemplaren
The Sacketts Volumes 1 - 4 (1980) 2 exemplaren
Down the Long Hills 2 exemplaren
Red Butte Showdown (2003) 2 exemplaren
Le ranch de Clive Chantry (1976) 2 exemplaren
Projekt Makatozi 2 exemplaren
Jackson of Horntown (1947) 2 exemplaren
West of the Pilot Range (1995) 2 exemplaren
Old Doc Yak (1992) 2 exemplaren
Shalako. (1969) 2 exemplaren
A Gift of Cochise 2 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour - many books (1970) 2 exemplaren
il grande solitario 2 exemplaren
Westerns (2008) 2 exemplaren
One Night Stand 2 exemplaren
Collect from a Corpse (1983) 2 exemplaren
Louis lamour 2 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour Collection (2006) 2 exemplaren
Louis L'Amour's Trio of Tales (2008) 2 exemplaren
Squatters on the Lonetree (1952) 2 exemplaren
Law of the Desert (2014) 2 exemplaren
Trap of Gold (1951) 2 exemplaren
More Brains than Bullets (1983) 2 exemplaren
The Marshal of Painted Rock (1953) 2 exemplaren
A Honra dos Sackett 2 exemplaren
The Hand of Kuan-yin 2 exemplaren
Guldfloden 1 exemplaar
l'erede del bandito 1 exemplaar
all works 1 exemplaar
The Man Called Moon 1 exemplaar
Showdown Trail: A Western Duo (2014) 1 exemplaar
Bloed op die Water 1 exemplaar
Man Alleen 1 exemplaar
Le Train Du Kansas (1980) 1 exemplaar
La Cabane perdue (Western) (1983) 1 exemplaar
La Longue Chasse (1981) 1 exemplaar
La Route du Colorado (Western) (1983) 1 exemplaar
La Vallée verte (Western) (1983) 1 exemplaar
Lost Trails 1 exemplaar
Le canon de la folle (1971) 1 exemplaar
Sackett # 4 1 exemplaar
Sackett Et Son Mustang (1976) 1 exemplaar
LES LOUPS HURLENT A LA LUNE (1973) 1 exemplaar
Les implacables. (1971) 1 exemplaar
LES DESPÉRADOS (1970) 1 exemplaar
The high graders 1 exemplaar
North to the rails 1 exemplaar
The Far Mountains 1 exemplaar
Showdown at Yellow Butte (1972) 1 exemplaar
Hunted Mesa 1 exemplaar
Fair blows the wind 1 exemplaar
Begrav de döda 1 exemplaar
n Graf vir twee 1 exemplaar
Love Out of Season 1 exemplaar
℗I ℗due nemici (1986) 1 exemplaar
Hillside Homicide 1 exemplaar
The Cherokee Trail 1 exemplaar
Der ruf des waldes 1 exemplaar
Utah Blaine / Desert Showdown (1954) 1 exemplaar
A Falsa Pista Os sacketts (1987) 1 exemplaar
Valley of The Sun 1 exemplaar
Monument Rock 1 exemplaar
Cowboy Stories 1 exemplaar
Bivacco sulla neve 1 exemplaar
Hondo (2023) 1 exemplaar
Down the long hills 1 exemplaar
War Party (1973) 1 exemplaar
The Walking Drum 1 exemplaar
The Catus Kid Pays a Debt (1989) 1 exemplaar
Big Country, Volume 3 (2012) 1 exemplaar
Lunga fuga 1 exemplaar
The Math Teacher 1 exemplaar
A Trail Gone Cold 1 exemplaar
Jacob Sackett 1 exemplaar
Fighters Should Be Hungry (2000) 1 exemplaar
West is Where the Heart Is (1986) 1 exemplaar
Barney Takes a Hand (1986) 1 exemplaar
Bad Place to Die (1989) 1 exemplaar
Fuego en las Mantanas (1981) 1 exemplaar
Lockendes Gold. 1 exemplaar
Manden uden fortid 1 exemplaar
Hævnens vej 1 exemplaar
With Death in his Corner (1983) 1 exemplaar
Bluff Creek Station 1 exemplaar
Big Man 1 exemplaar
Duffy's Man 1 exemplaar
Hattan's Castle 1 exemplaar
Author's Tea 1 exemplaar
The Admiral 1 exemplaar
I Hate to Tell His Widow (1983) 1 exemplaar
Thicker than Blood 1 exemplaar
Glorious! 1 exemplaar
The Dancing Kate 1 exemplaar
Wings over Khabarovsk (1986) 1 exemplaar
The Goose Flies South (1986) 1 exemplaar
Tailwind to Tibet (1986) 1 exemplaar
Pirates with Wings (1986) 1 exemplaar
Mission to Siberut (1986) 1 exemplaar
South of Suez 1 exemplaar
The Street of Lost Corpses (1983) 1 exemplaar
In Victorio's Country (1995) 1 exemplaar
Kuiskaavan tuulen laakso (1983) 1 exemplaar
Collectors Series 1 exemplaar
No Man's Mesa (1995) 1 exemplaar
Gila Crossing (1995) 1 exemplaar
That Slash Seven Kid (1995) 1 exemplaar
Nocturne 1 exemplaar
I'm a Stranger Here 1 exemplaar
Without This Land 1 exemplaar
Life 1 exemplaar
The Running Hills 1 exemplaar
Biography in Stone 1 exemplaar
Collection Trail to Pie Town (2008) 1 exemplaar
I Shall Go Back 1 exemplaar
Twilight 1 exemplaar
Tranquillity 1 exemplaar
The Pioneer 1 exemplaar
The Gladiator 1 exemplaar
Call of the Tropics 1 exemplaar
Picture 1 exemplaar
Old Jerry 1 exemplaar
Question 1 exemplaar
In Protest 1 exemplaar
Lines To a Season 1 exemplaar
Winter Winds 1 exemplaar
I Came To Create 1 exemplaar
McVey 1 exemplaar
Ship Across The Sky 1 exemplaar
In This Is Beauty 1 exemplaar
My Three Friends 1 exemplaar
Hildebrand 1 exemplaar
The Weary One 1 exemplaar
To Giordano Bruno 1 exemplaar
Steppe 1 exemplaar
Yacodhapura 1 exemplaar
Forest People 1 exemplaar
Let It Snow 1 exemplaar
East of Gorontalo 1 exemplaar
What Gold Does to a Man (1961) 1 exemplaar
A Handful of Stars 1 exemplaar
Winter 1 exemplaar
Riding On (1951) 1 exemplaar
Showdown on the Tumbling T (1990) 1 exemplaar
That Packsaddle Affair (1990) 1 exemplaar
No Rest for the Wicked (1990) 1 exemplaar
The Drift (1990) 1 exemplaar
The Ghost Maker (1990) 1 exemplaar
Alkali Basin 1 exemplaar
Secret Pass 1 exemplaar
Banked Fires 1 exemplaar
Then Comes Spring 1 exemplaar
The Ghosts of Buckskin Run (1948) 1 exemplaar
North Cape 1 exemplaar
To You, Jeannine 1 exemplaar
Decadence 1 exemplaar
Let Me Forget 1 exemplaar
Rose of Memory 1 exemplaar
Mutation 1 exemplaar
Rain 1 exemplaar
When a Texan Takes Over (1995) 1 exemplaar
The Money Punch 1 exemplaar
Duel i ørkenen 1 exemplaar
After Tomorrow 1 exemplaar
Calloway 1 exemplaar
Fünf Partner (1965) 1 exemplaar
Ein Mann wie Kid Rodelo (1966) 1 exemplaar
Das war der wilde Westen (1969) 1 exemplaar
West of Dry Creek 1 exemplaar
Vol. 1 - Westerns (1997) 1 exemplaar
Fortune de feu (1986) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Home is the Hunter 1 exemplaar
To Hang Me High 1 exemplaar
Samotář (1995) 1 exemplaar
Four by L'Amour (Dramatized) (1997) 1 exemplaar
Poklad 1 exemplaar
Die schnelle Hand (1959) 1 exemplaar
Drama i vildmarken 1 exemplaar
Det blodige opgør 1 exemplaar
Yksinäiset jumalat (1985) 1 exemplaar
Paperback 1 exemplaar
Trail to Pie Town 1 exemplaar
La lunga fuga (1990) 1 exemplaar
A Husband for Janey 1 exemplaar
To Make a Stand 1 exemplaar
Psanec (2009) 1 exemplaar
Osamělý jezdec (2005) 1 exemplaar
The Gravel Pit 1 exemplaar
Time of Terror (2000) 1 exemplaar
THOH (1983) 1 exemplaar
Noi Sackett 1 exemplaar
Stories of the Western Range (2012) 1 exemplaar
The Skull and the Arrow (1997) 1 exemplaar
Friend of a Hero 1 exemplaar
The Cactus Kid 1 exemplaar
The Ghost Fighter 1 exemplaar
Wings over Brazil 1 exemplaar
The Vanished Blonde 1 exemplaar
The Rounds Don't Matter (2000) 1 exemplaar
Desperate Men (1997) 1 exemplaar
The Unexpected Corpse (2000) 1 exemplaar
The Cross and the Candle (2000) 1 exemplaar
Meeting at Falmouth 1 exemplaar
Roundup in Texas 1 exemplaar
Sideshow Champion 1 exemplaar
Crash Landing 1 exemplaar
Coast Patrol 1 exemplaar
The Fighting Four 1 exemplaar
Rustler Roundup (1997) 1 exemplaar
The Sackett Stories 1 exemplaar
Na mušce (2011) 1 exemplaar
Punainen hevonen (1983) 1 exemplaar
A Man Named Utah 1 exemplaar
Ironwood Station 1 exemplaar
Here Ends the Trail 1 exemplaar
Last Day in Town 1 exemplaar
Sackettien perintö 1 exemplaar
Piritetty karjatila 1 exemplaar
Tie Coloradoon (1983) 1 exemplaar
The Last Frontier 1 exemplaar
Caprock Rancher (1997) 1 exemplaar
Elisha Comes to Red Horse (1997) 1 exemplaar
Wilderness Trek (1965) 1 exemplaar
Collection of Louis L'Amour (1980) 1 exemplaar

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
LaMoore, Louis Dearborn (birth name)
Burns, Tex
Mayo, Jim
Geboortedatum
1908-03-22
Overlijdensdatum
1988-06-10
Graflocatie
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Jamestown, North Dakota, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Los Angeles, California, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
cancer (lung)
Woonplaatsen
Los Angeles, California, USA
Opleiding
self-educated
Beroepen
novelist
gold miner
merchant seaman
professional boxer
Relaties
L'Amour, Angelique (daughter)
L'Amour, Beau (son)
Organisaties
WPA Writers Project
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)
Congressional Gold Medal (1982)
Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Award (1972)
Saddleman Award (1981)
National Book Award (1979)
Korte biografie
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films.

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1908. He left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs. In 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to 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.

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Leden
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Populariteit
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