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Kelly Ray Masters
Kelly Ray Masters (June 16, 1897 – 1987), was an American writer using the pen name Zachary Ball. He is known best for ''Joe Panther'', ''Bristle Face'', and other adventure novels for boys.
==Life and career==
Masters was born in the Blackjack Hills west of Princeton, Missouri, to Abelino and Iva (Herrick) Masters in 1897. Between the ages of six and thirteen, he lived in southeast Kansas near Altoona and spent much of his boyhood boating, rafting, and camping along the Verdigris River.〔Zachary, Ball (1958), Young Mike Fink, E. M. Hale and Company, p. 197〕 ''"I was still a boy when I first met Old Man River'', he later said, ''"and I got to know him well."''〔 Masters dropped out of school at 13 in order to support his family first with a riprap gang building retaining walls along the Missouri River〔 and then through working in a series of factory jobs in Kansas City, Kansas, and St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1914, while working as a bellhop at the St. Joseph, he joined a small tent repertory show and spent the next twenty-five years touring almost every state in the union with various troupes and as part of a musical act with his younger brother.
Masters married his wife Gladys (Green) in 1931 and had a son, Kelly Ray Jr, in 1938. While living in Austin, Texas, he began to sell stories to magazines of widely varying quality in an attempt to supplement his income. Masters took the pen name Zachary Ball by combining the names of two of his favorite movie stars: Zachary Scott and Lucille Ball. Eventually he would co-write several short stories for the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's with author Frankie-Lee Weed. Weed wrote under the pseudonym Saliee O'Brien. The pair submitted stories under Weed's pen name (Saliee O'Brien) when the lead character was a woman and under Ball's name when a man. Ball published two books for adults, ''Pull Down to New Orleans'' (1945) and ''Piney'' (1950), before turning to children's fiction for the school library market.
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