Elmer Kelton
Appearance
Elmer Stephen Kelton | |
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![]() Kelton at the 2007 Texas Book Festival | |
Born | April 29, 1926[1] Five Wells Ranch, Andrews County, Texas, U.S. |
Died | August 22, 2009[2] San Angelo, Texas, U.S. | (aged 83)
Occupation | |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
Period | 1957–2009 |
Genre | Westerns |
Spouse | Anna (née Lipp) Kelton |
Children | 3 |
Website | |
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Elmer Kelton (April 29, 1926[1] – August 22, 2009[2]) was an American author, known for his Westerns. He was born in Andrews County, Texas.
He graduated from the University of Texas in 1948. Kelton worked as the farm and ranch editor of the San Angelo Standard-Times from 1948 to 1963. He served as the associate editor of Livestock Weekly from 1968 to 1990. Kelton's memoir, Sandhills Boy, was published in 2007.
Kelton's novels won seven Spur Awards, from the Western Writers of America, and three Western Heritage Awards, from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. He also received a Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement.
Awards
[edit]Year | Award | Category | Work |
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1957 | Spur Award | Novel | Buffalo Wagons |
1971 | Spur Award | Novel | The Day the Cowboys Quit |
1973 | Spur Award | Novel | The Time It Never Rained |
1974 | Western Heritage Award | Western Novel | The Time It Never Rained |
1977 | Owen Wister Award | Western literature | Lifetime achievement |
1979 | Western Heritage Award | Western Novel | The Good Old Boys |
1981 | Spur Award | Novel | Eyes of the Hawk |
1988 | Western Heritage Award | Western Novel | The Man Who Rode Midnight |
1992 | Spur Award | Novel of the West | Slaughter |
1994 | Spur Award | Novel of the West | The Far Canyon |
2002 | Spur Award | Best Western Novel | Way of the Coyote |
2010 (posthumously) | American Cowboy Culture Association | Fictional works | Lifetime achievement |
Bibliography
[edit]Partial list of works:
- Barbed Wire (1957)
- Buffalo Wagons (1957)
- Shadow of a Star (1958)
- Texas Rifles (1960)
- Donovan (1961)
- Massacre at Goliad (1965)
- After the Bugles (1967)
- Llano River (1968)
- The Day the Cowboys Quit (1971)
- Wagontongue (1972)
- The Time it Never Rained (1973)
- The Wolf and the Buffalo (1980)
- Dark Thicket (1985)
- Honor at Daybreak (1991)
- Slaughter (1992)
- The Far Canyon (1994)
- The Pumpkin Rollers (1996)
- Cloudy in the West (1997)
- The Smiling Country (1998)
- Way of the Coyote (2001)
- Jericho's Road (2004)
- Six Bits a Day (2005)
- Ranger's Law: A Lone Star Saga (2006)
- The Rebels: Sons of Texas (2007)
- Many A River (2009)
Texas Ranger novels:
- The Buckskin Line
- Badger Boy
- The Way of the Coyote
- Ranger's Trail
- Texas Vendetta
- Jericho's Road
- Hard Trail to Follow
- Other Men's Horses
- Texas Standoff
References
[edit]- ^ a b Kelton, Elmer (2007). - Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer. - New York, New York: Forge. - p.26. - ISBN 978-0-7653-1521-2.
- ^ a b "UPDATE: Elmer Kelton dies at 83". San Angelo Standard-Times. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elmer Kelton.
- elmerkelton.net, Kelton's official website
- Elmer Kelton's page. - Macmillan.com
- The Story of Elmer Kelton
- Kelton's papers, 1948-1985. - Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
- Wall Street Journal on Elmer Kelton
- Elmer Kelton interview with Bradley D. Pettit. - AmericanCowboy.com
- Texas Rangers Audiobooks - GraphicAudio.net
Categories:
- American editors
- American male novelists
- United States Army personnel of World War II
- People from Andrews County, Texas
- People from Crane County, Texas
- People from San Angelo, Texas
- People from Upton County, Texas
- Journalists from Texas
- Moody College of Communication alumni
- United States Army soldiers
- American Western (genre) novelists
- Novelists from Texas
- 1926 births
- 2009 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 20th-century American male writers
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