Lou Cameron is an American novelist and a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 creator.

Born in San Francisco in 1924 to Lou Cameron Sr. and Ruth Marvin Cameron, a vaudeville comedian and his vocalist wife.
Lou Cameron served in Europe during World War 2 in the U.S. Army 2nd Armored Division "Hell On Wheels".
Before becoming a writer, Cameron illustrated comics such as Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. Following the series' demise, various companies...

 and miscellaneous horror comics.
Some movie to book adaptations he has written include "None But the Brave

None But the Brave

None But the Brave, also known as in Japan, is a 1965 war film starring Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first Japanese-American co-production, produced by Sinatra for Warner Bros...

" starring Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

,"California Split

California Split

California Split is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman and starring Elliott Gould and George Segal as a pair of gamblers. It was the first non-Cinerama movie to use eight-track stereo sound.-Plot:...

", "Sky Riders

Sky Riders

Sky Riders is a 1976 American action film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring James Coburn, Susannah York and Robert Culp. A woman and her children are kidnapped in Athens and held in a mountain-top monastery as hostages by a revolutionary terrorist movement...

" starring James Coburn

James Coburn

James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.A capable,...

, and the award winning CBS miniseries "How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

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", collaborating with Louis L'amour

Louis L'Amour

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels , however he also wrote historical fiction , science fiction , nonfiction , as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies...

 .
In 2004 his novel The subway stalker was adapted to film by French director Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...

 as Le Furet.

He has received awards such as the Golden Spur

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 Western writings.
Lou Cameron lives in Manhattan

Manhattan

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 where he continues to write.
Currently his Longarm

Longarm

The Longarm books are a series of western novels featuring the character of Custis Long, who is nicknamed Longarm, a U.S. Deputy Marshal based in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s. The series is written by "Tabor Evans", a house pseudonym used by a number of authors. Lou Cameron helped create the...

series (written as Tabor Evans) is being reprinted and is available at major book stores and online.

as Lou Cameron

• Angel's Flight (1960)
• The Empty Quarter (1962)
• The Sky Divers (1962)
• None But the Brave (1965)
• The Block Busters (1966)
• Iron Men with Wooden Wings (1967)
• Bastard's Name Is War (1968)
• The Good Guy (1968)
• Green Fields of Hell (1968)
• Mistress of Bayou LaBelle (1968)
• Ashanti (1969)
• Big Red Ball (1969)
• The Black Camp (1969)
• The Dragon's Spine (1969)
• File on a Missing Redhead (1969)
• Hannibal Brooks (1969)
• The Mud War (1969)
• The Outsider (1969)
• Dirty War of Sergeant Slade (1969)
• Amphora Pirates (1970)
• Before It's Too Late (1970)
• Behind the Scarlet Door (1971)
• Spurhead (1971)
• The Tipping Point (1971)
• Zulu Warrior (1971)
• Cybernia (1972)
• The Girl with the Dynamite Bangs (1973)
• California Split (1974)
• Barca (1975)
• North to Cheyenne (1975)
• Closing Circle (1975)
• Dekker (1976)
• Guns of Durango (1976)
• Sky Riders (1976)
• Tancredi (1976)
• The Spirit Horses (1976)
• Drop into Hell (1976)
• How the West Was Won (1977)
• Code Seven (1977)
• The Big Lonely (1978)
• The Cascade Ghost (1978)
• The Subway Stalker (1980)
• The Hot Car (1981)
• Grass of Goodnight (1987)
• The Buntline Special (1988)
• Crooked Lance (1989)
• 'Yellow Iron (1990)
• Eagle Chief (1990)
• The First Blood (1992)

Stringer serie

• Stringer (1987)
• On Dead Man's Range (1987)
• Stringer On the Assassin's Trail (1987)
• Stringer and the Hangman's Rodeo (1988)
• Stringer and the Wild Bunch (1988)
• Stringer and the Hanging Judge (1988)
• In Tombstone (1988)
• Stringer and the Deadly Flood (1988)
• Stringer and the Lost Tribe (1988)
• Stringer and the Oil Well Indians (1989)
• Stringer and the Border War (1989)
• Stringer On the Mojave (1989)
• Stringer On Pikes Peak (1989)
• Stringer and the Hell Bound Herd (1989)
• Stringer in a Texas Shoot-Out (1989)

as Mary Manning

• The Last Chronicles of Ballyfungus (1978)
• This Fever in My Blood (1980)

as Ramsay Thorne

• Renegade (1979)
• Blood Runner (1980)
• The Fear Merchant (1980)
• Death Hunter (1980)
• Macumba Killer (1980)
• Panama Gunner (1980)
• Death in High Places (1981)
• Over the Andes to Hell (1981)
• Hell Raider (1981)
• The Great Game (1981)
• Citadel of Death (1981)
• The Badlands Brigade (1982)
• The Mahogany Pirates (1982)
• Harvest of Death (1982)
• Terror Trail (1982)
• Mexican Marauder (1983)
• Slaughter in Sinaloa (1983)
• Cavern of Doom (1983)
• Hellfire in Honduras (1983)
• River of Revenge (1983)
• Payoff in Panama (1984)
• Volcano of Violence (1984)
• Guatemala Gunman (1984)
• High Sea Showdown (1984)
• Blood On the Border (1984)
• Savage Safari (1984)
• The Slave Raiders (1985)
• Peril in Progreso (1985)
• Mayhem At Mission Bay (1985)
• Shootout in Segovia (1985)
• Death Over Darien (1985)
• Costa Rican Carnage (1985)
• Golden Express (1986)
• Standoff in the Sky (1986)
• Guns for Garcia (1986)

External links

• Lou Cameron on fantasticfiction.
• Comic creator: Lou Cameron on Lambiek.net.