Giles Alfred Lutz was a prolific author of fiction in the Western genre

Western (genre)

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. Born in March 1910 in Missouri

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, United States

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, Lutz for many years wrote short stories about the American West that were published in pulp magazines. His story "Get a Wild Horse Hunter," an example of his pulp fiction writing, appeared in the June 1952 edition of the magazine Western Novels and Short Stories. In the mid-1950s Lutz made the transition to full-length novels, and until his death in June 1982, published numerous stories about the American West. In 1962, Lutz won the Western Writers of America

Western Writers of America

Western Writers of America, founded 1953, promotes literature, both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to the American West. Although its founders wrote traditional western fiction, the more than five hundred current members also include historians and other non-fiction writers as well as authors...

 Golden Spur Award

Golden Spur

The Golden Spur Awards are literature awards given for distinguished western fiction about the American West by the Western Writers of America. The first Spur Awards were given in 1953.-Recent winners:*Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove...

 for his novel, The Honyocker.

Lutz wrote under several pseudonyms during his pulp fiction career, including under the names: "James B. Chaffin," "Wade Everett

Wade Everett

Wade Everett was the pseudonym used by the authors Will Cook and Giles A. Lutz to write western novels.-Single titles:*First Command *Fort Starke *Last Scout *Big Man, Big Mountain *Killer...

 (with Will Cook

Will Cook (writer)

William Everett Cook , was a western writer as Will Cook and Frank Peace. He also wrote under the pseudonym James Keene with the romance writer Ida Cook and as Wade Everett with the western and erotic writer Giles A...

)," "Alex Hawk," "Hunter," "Hunter Ingram," "Reese Sullivan," and "Gene Thompson." Under the pseudonym "Brad Curtis," Lutz wrote steamy pulp novels in the erotica genre

Erotic literature

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. He also wrote a lot of sports fiction for the pulp magazines, in titles like Ace Sports, Complete Sports, and Football Stories.

Western Novels

• Fight Or Run (1954)
• The Golden Bawd (1956)
• To Hell and Texas (1956)
• Fury Trail (1957)
• Gun the Man Down (1957)
• Relentless Gun (1958)
• Outcast Gun (1958)
• The Homing Bullet (1959)
• Law of the Trigger (1959)
• The Challenger (1960)
• Stranger in My Bed (1960)
• The Wild Quarry (1961)
• The Long Cold Wind (1962)
• The Golden Land (1963)
• Halfway to Hell (1963)
• Killer's Trail (1963)
• Range Feud (1963)
• The Blind Trail (1964)
• The Bleeding Land (1965)
• Nemesis of Circle A (1965)
• Deadly Like a .45 (1966)
• The Demanding Land (1966)
• The Hardy Breed (1966)
• The Magnificent Failure (1967)
• The Trouble Borrower (1968)
• The Vengeance Ghost (1968)
• Wild Runs the River (1968)
• The Deadly Deputy (1969)
• The Honyocker (1969)
• Montana Crossing (1970)
• Man On the Run (1971)
• The Stranger (1972)
• The Unbeaten (1972)
• Gun Rich (1973)
• The Outsider (1973)
• Lonely Ride (1973)
• Blood Feud (1973)
• The Grudge (1974)
• The Offenders (1974)
• Reprisal! (1974)
• The Black Day (1974)
• Stagecoach to Hell (1975)
• My Brothers Keeper (1975)
• The Stubborn Breed (1975)
• A Drifting Man (1976)
• Night of the Cattlemen (1976)
• The Way Homeward (1977)
• A Time for Vengeance (1977)
• Turn Around (1978)
• The Ragged Edge (1978)
• The Shoot Out (1978)
• Lure of the Outlaw Trail (1979)
• Lure of the Trail (1980)
• The Trespassers (1980)
• Fort Apache (1980)
• Thieves' Brand (1981)
• The Echo (1981)
• Forked Tongue (1981)
• Man Hunt (1981)
• Great Railroad War (1982)
• Smash the Wild Bunch (1982)
• War on the Range (1982)
• The Feud (1982)
• The Tangled Web (1983)

Erotic Novels

• Man Trap (1963)
• For Services Rendered (1964)
• Man-Tamer (1964)
• Private Property (1964)
• The Golden Greed (1965)
• The Love Goddess (1965)
• Night Shift (1965)
• A Female Female (1966)
• Jody (1966)
• Live and Let Live (1966)
• Pleasure Play (1967)

External links

• Giles A. Lutz