Show ie grey egrey author I 1 t western novels es s in california p eardly adly a person in the united ites s exists who has not read or 00 portrayed on the screen a irful ua zane grey novel of the t and the entire population of country countr Y I 1 learned earned with regret of 0 death ot of this prolific writer ir idena dena california on monday died suddenly of a heart at c e is survived bv his widow ane anc e children romer loen lo en ane who is mrs robert W car P grey was born bom january 31 at zanesville ohio we e grey first studied dentistry after several years of hunsuc ul I 1 practice in new york city ed d to writing in the course course i years he turned out over 50 novels written at the rate of OW words a month his first book to makenny money was the heritage of the desert written in 1910 this was followed in 1912 by the spectacularly buce successful e riders of the ne purple sage laid in utah which met with great antagonism from the mormons cormons Mor mons some of his other books were desert gold the border legion the thundering herd and U P trail |