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Richard Edward Wormser (February 2, 1908, New York City, New York – July, 1977, Tumacaciori, Arizona) was a prolific American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 12 books, many screenplays and stories turned into screenplays and a cookbook ''Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range''. ==Literary accomplishments== After graduating from Princeton University he became a prolific writer of pulp fiction under his own name, the pen name of Conrad Gerson, and wrote seventeen Nick Carter novels for Street & Smith.〔p.139 Wild Cat Books ''The Pulp Hero Deluxe Edition'' 2008 Lulu〕 Wormser's first crime fiction novel was ''The Man with the Wax Face'' in 1934. His first Western novel was ''The Lonesome Quarter'' in 1951.〔Sadler, Geoff, Salder, James, Sonnichsen, Charles Leland, Bold, Christine ''Twentieth Century Western Writers'' 1991 St. James Press Edition 2〕 Hollywood purchased several of his stories beginning with his ''It's All in the Racket'' filmed as ''Sworn Enemy'' in 1936. Columbia Pictures signed him for a short term writing contract in 1937.〔http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_041037/32〕 He was fired, then rehired by Columbia and worked for several other studios. Columbia once couldn't make up its mind between buying two of his stories, ''The Frame Up'' or ''Right Guy''. The studio at last decided on ''Right Guy'' but filmed it under the title of ''The Frame Up''. During World War II he served as a forest ranger. Wormser won Western Spur Awards for juvenile fiction in 1964 for ''Ride a Northbound Horse'' and in 1971 for ''The Black Mustanger''.〔http://www.westernwriters.org/spur_award_history.htm〕 He also won an Edgar award for best original paperback novel for ''The Invader'' in 1973. 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「Richard Wormser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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