J.t. Edson Books List
Catherine Rubeo
J.T. Edson was one of the highly respected novelists from The United Kingdom. He was fond of writing his novels and short stories based on the escapism adventure, western, as well as the police procedural genres, writing around 137 novels in his career. Author Edson was born on February 17, 1928, as John Thomas Edson and died on July 17, 2014. From the year 1950 onwards, he used to reside near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. All his life, author Edson was involved in writing books and novels, but gave it up completely in the year 2005 due to his ill health. He was born in a tiny mining village located near the border of the Derbyshire County, England, called Whitwell. Many of his ancestors used to work in the coal mines. The parents of author Edson got married in Whitwell, after which he was born as their first kid. When his father died in the year 1928, his mother was left alone as a 23 year old widow. She went on to marry again when author Edson reached the age of 18. As a youngster, Edson used to visit the small cinemas in the towns of England very often and used to watch escapist adventure fares. All the time when his mother used to work, he used to be busy watching one or the other show. Eventually, he became very much obsessed with the Western and Escapist Adventure serials. Later in his writing career, author Edson wrote in the appendices and foreword of many of his books how he rewrote the adventure serials and the cowboy movies that he watched in the cinema. In those types of movies and serials, author Edson was mainly intrigued by the mechanics behind card cheating, dressing and speaking style of the Westerners, the reason behind the gun jamming of the baddies.
Initially, when he started writing, he was helped by one of his school teachers, who encouraged and assisted him to develop his writing skills. At the age of 18, author Edson went on to join the army. He served for a period of 12 years in the British Army, mainly as one of the Dog Trainers. During the time of his service, he used to get cooped up in the barracks for longer periods of time and used to utilize them for reading the books of the popular escapist writers like Nelson Nye, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edgar Wallace, etc. Also, Edson used to get involved in watching films starring Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Audie Murphy, etc. Among all these, Audie Murphy was his most favorite. During the 1950s, author Edson took the help of a typewriter to get along with his typing and finished writing 10 western novels by the time he retired from his service. However, he had not taken writing seriously yet and considered it mainly as a hobby. Soon, he left the army to get married. While raising his family of a wife and 6 children, author Edson thought of turning his hobby into a means to earn an income so that he could support the family. He was lucky that one of his books won the second prize in a literary competition organized by the Brown and Watson Ltd. They saw the talent in him and agreed to publish the next 46 books of his career.
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J.T. Edson, full name John Thomas Edson, was an English author who wrote over 130 novels in his career. He wrote mostly escapism adventures such as Westerns and police procedurals. He started his writing career in 1947 and would continue until 2005 when he retired due to health reasons. He passed away in 2014.
Edson is best known for his use of recurring characters as well as using historical figures and combining them with fictional characters. Some of his best known creations were Ole Devil, Waxahachie, and Bunduki. His villains were often stereotypical, but his protagonists were always larger than life heroes that inspired loyalty among readers.
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This novel is dedicated with love to the many historical and
fictional characters herein lampooned, and to their creators.
Both the creators and the characters have enriched my life. To
Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone; to Philip Jose Farmer, whose
novels inspired and instructed me; to Robert Silverberg, who
unwittingly provided me with my start; to Jeff Dowden, Fred
Christian, Margie Feldmark, Randle Walsh, and Debbie
Raymond; to David Wise, for providing me with source quotes;
to my parents, Dr. William A. and Margaret Cover, who
helped bankroll this operation during the two years it took to
do the writing; to my brothers James, Bill, and J.R.; and to my
editor, Harlan Ellison, without whom this book would not
have been written, and rewritten, and rewritten, and re ...
To all my very patient readers,
editors, family and friends; and
to two writers of science fiction
and fantasy who particularly
inspired me to write this series
and lit my path ahead. Thank
you,Philip Jos Farmer
and Roger Zelazny.
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I forgot about my list too. The first time I left the country, a trip to England, I even came up with a list of books I thought were in print there but not here in America. Mostly it was a bust but I did get half a dozen cheap Richard Stark Parker novels long before they were available again in the U.S.
I suspect that the guy who wrote this one wouldn't mind if his name was revealed, but I don't know that for sure so I'll err on the side of discretion. He's written a few Westerns under his own name but is best known for his work in other genres.
Mine was a composition book with complete lists of all the writers i was interested in. When I found One on the list, I would put a star after it, one before it when I red it.
Still have that notebook, though these days I use it when searching on the internet.
I still keep a list with me for when I go to book stores (used or otherwise), which is every chance I get. I've found that shipping charges sometimes make the books more expensive than a store bought copy. If it's not something I'm in a hurry to read, I'll wait and enjoy the thrill of the hunt. Only now my list is on my Blackberry.
I go to book sales all the time and there are still plenty of people who carry lists. Sometimes I see older men and women with typewritten stapled manuscripts, worn and battered and torn after many years of flipping the pages and carrying from place to place. Not everyone resorts to computers and the internet. Amazing, but true. And I agfee with Keith about shipping fees. I'm beginning to avoid all the usual UK sellers I enjoyed dealing with because our American dollar frankly sucks the big one in terms of currency conversion. And not jsut in the UK but everywhere!
Prior to the internet, I used to carry lists that I couldn't even fit in my pockets. Now thanks to ebay and abebooks.com, I have practically no wants except for the rare pulp magazines. You can find practically anything on the internet.
I do have a long time friend that still carries lists, so many that he needs a carton to hold the loose leaf binders, etc. Over the years he has made so many mistakes checking off wants, that he has duplicates of many items. Two or three times at Pulpcon I've come across his misplaced and lost binders and taken them home to NJ and returned them. Fortunately he lives only 20 minutes from my home.