Louis L'amour
Louis L'Amour was born on March 22, 1908, in Jamestown, North Dakota. His father, Louis Charles, was a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman and was also involved in local politics. Charles served as alderman of Jamestown's largest ward for many years as well as deputy sheriff, but he lost his mayoral race.L'Amour married Katherine Elizabeth Adams, on February 19, 1956. They had two children: Beau Dearborn and Angelique Gabrielle (Contemporary Authors, 25).Young Louie enjoyed playing cowboys and Indians, and roughhoused in the family barn. He did more than his share of reading, particularly G.A. Henty, an Englishman who wrote of wars through the nineteenth century. His work ethic was instilled by his parents. The L'Amour family library encompassed some five hundred books, among them the works of Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, and Poe, as well as popular American and English writers. The youngest of the L'Amour children, Louie remembered reading a five-volume Collier's History of the World while he was small enough to sit in his father's lap.His serious reading began at twelve with a collection of biographies titled The Genius of Solitude. A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate
5 million copies and was made into a film starring John Wayne. They applauded his ability to write quick paced action novels filled with accurate descriptions of the Old West. He tired his hand at writing during his travels, but his scribblings didn't include events as familiar as his Western heritage (Hall). . So many of L'Amour's heroes were kids because his life was a preadult world, where moral problems didn't exist (Washington Post). Today, over eighty million copies of his novels are now in print, and according to Bantam Books, after the publication of The Man from the Broken Hills, L'Amour is their best selling author, edging out John Steinbeck and Zane Grey. He then hoboed his way to Galveston, Texas, where he hired on as a merchant seaman. L'Amour ignored criticism and decided to do what hardly anyone had ever done before: make a living as a Western writer. The dove had taken up residence in the novelist's garage and was brought into the house and named Rama-Cita, after two deities of East Indian mythology. But it's not the praise of critics that motivated him to write; it was his readers. L'Amour left his odorous job, after three months sleeping on the ground and staying downwind from passerby.
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