About John Myers Myers
Lived 1906 – 1988 (aged 82). John Myers Myers was an American poet, novelist, writer and biographer.
John Myers Myers (January 11, 1906 – October 30, 1988) was an American writer. He is known best for the fantasy novel Silverlock, in which a man with a Master of Business Administration travels through a fantasy land, meeting dozens of characters from myth, legend, and romance for adventure and instruction.
Life
Myers was born in Northport, Long Island on January 11, 1906, to John Caldwell Myers and Alice O'Neil McCorry Myers. The novel's settings and characters, other than the protagonist, are drawn entirely from numerous other works of literature, such as the Odyssey and Don Quixote. His last book, The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter (1981), was advertised as a sequel to Silverlock. Myers' non-fiction works included a history of the Alamo, the first biography of Doc Holliday, a study of the vigilante movement in San Francisco, and a well-researched biography of Hugh Glass, an early American fur trapper and frontiersman.
Fiction
Fantasy Silverlock (E. P. Dutton, 1949); reprinted by Ace Books from 1966 The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter (The Donning Company, 1981) Silverlock: Including the Silverlock Companion (NESFA Press, 2004), A Silverlock Companion: The Life and Works of John Myers Myers, edited by Fred Lerner, is a 52-page pamphlet published in 1988 and reprinted as a book in 1989 .
Historical fiction The Harp and the Blade (1941 [1940 serial]), subject: medieval France; reprinted by The Donning Company, 1982, and Ace Books from 1983 Out on Any Limb (1942), subject: Elizabethan England The Wild Yazoo (1947), subject: Mississippi frontier Dead Warrior (1956), western I, Jack Swilling (1961), western
Poetry Maverick Zone (1961), subject: American Old West
Non-fiction The Alamo (1948) The Last Chance: Tombstone's Early Years (1950) Doc Holliday (1955) The Deaths of the Bravos (1962), Western history The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man (1963), reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, San Francisco's Reign of Terror (1966) Print in a Wild Land (1967) The Westerners: A Roundup of Pioneer Reminiscences (1969) The Border Wardens: A History of the United States Border Patrol and Its Ceaseless Struggle to Stem the Tide of Wetbacks, Booze and Pot Across America's Wildest Boundary (1971),
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Who was John Myers Myers?
American fiction writer (1906-1988)
When was John Myers Myers born?
John Myers Myers was born on 11 January 1906.
When did John Myers Myers die?
John Myers Myers died on 30 October 1988.
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John Myers Myers was a poet, novelist, writer and biographer.
What nationality was John Myers Myers?
John Myers Myers was American.
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