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Gordon Young (1886–1948) was an American writer of adventure and western stories. Young was born in Ray County, Missouri.〔P. R. Meldrum, "Young, Gordon (Ray)" in ''Twentieth Century Western Writers'', edited by Geoff Sadler. St. James Press, 1991, ISBN 0-912289-98-8 ,(pp. 743-44)〕 He worked as a cowboy and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Philippines, before moving to Los Angeles and taking a job at the ''Los Angeles Times'' in 1914. Young eventually became Literary Editor of the newspaper; one of his correspondents was Sinclair Lewis.〔Richard R. Lingeman, ''Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Main Street''. Random House, 2002 ISBN 0-679-43823-8 (p. 71).〕 He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, February 10, 1948.〔''San Diego Union'', February 11, 1948.〕 ==Writing career== Gordon Young began writing fiction for the magazine ''Adventure'' in 1917. Young's first stories for ''Adventure'' were a series of crime thrillers about a gun-wielding gambler, Don Everhard. Magazine historian Robert Sampson argued the Don Everhard stories influenced later writers of Hardboiled crime fiction such as Carroll John Daly.〔Robert Sampson, ''Yesterday's Faces: The Solvers''. Popular Press, 1987 ISBN 0-87972-415-3 (pp. 209-214).〕 Young soon became one of the most popular of Arthur Sullivant Hoffman's roster of authors for ''Adventure''.〔Lee Server. ''Danger is my business: an illustrated history of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines''. Chronicle Books, 1993. ISBN 0-8118-0112-8 (pp. 52-56)〕 He followed the Everhard stories with a series of South Seas tales about Hurricane Williams, an adventurer who shuns "civilized" society.〔Robert Kenneth Jones. ''The Lure of Adventure''. Starmont House, 1989 ISBN 1-55742-143-9 (pp. 12-14).〕 Young's novel, ''Days of '49'' (1925), a historical narrative about the settlement of California, was well received by contemporary reviewers.〔Helen Throop Purdy, "Days of '49", California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 3, (September, 1926), pp. 312-315.〕 Young's humorous Westerns about "Red" Clark, became his most commercially successful series; these tales first appeared in ''Adventure'' and ''Short Stories'' before being collected in book form.〔 The Clark stories were especially popular in Britain and most of the stories appeared in hardbacks for the UK library market.〔 Several of Gordon Young's stories were adapted for the cinema, including the 1936 film ''Captain Calamity''.〔 *〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gordon Young (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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