Ward Hawkins is an author, who wrote from the 1940s through the 1980s. His later works seem to have been science fiction, but earlier he wrote serial stories for the Saturday Evening Post in the 1940s and 1950s. He often wrote with his brother John Hawkins, and the University of Oregon has a collection of their manuscripts. . In the 1960s, the brothers were writing for television, notably as staff writers for Bonanza

Bonanza

Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...

, and in the 1970s, John Hawkins was a producer and writer for Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie

Little House is a series of children's books by Laura Ingalls Wilder that was published originally between 1932 and 1943, with four additional books published posthumously, in 1962, 1971, 1974 and 2006.-History:...

, while Ward was Story Editor and also contributed many teleplays for the program.

Books

• Floods of Fear
  A Girl, a Man, and a River
  A Girl, A Man, and a River is a mystery story by John and Ward Hawkins was originally written as a seven part serial in the Saturday Evening Post, published in issues from January 21, 1956, until March 3, 1956. It was later published as a hardcover book The Floods of Fear  by Dodd...
  
  , 1956
• A Girl, a Man, and a River
  A Girl, a Man, and a River
  A Girl, A Man, and a River is a mystery story by John and Ward Hawkins was originally written as a seven part serial in the Saturday Evening Post, published in issues from January 21, 1956, until March 3, 1956. It was later published as a hardcover book The Floods of Fear  by Dodd...
  
   by John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins, paperback 1957
• Kings Will Be Tyrants
  Kings Will Be Tyrants
  Kings Will Be Tyrants by Ward Hawkins is a 1959 novel about fighting in Cuba. Bernardo Manuel Patrick O'Brien is a former U.S. Marine who winds up fighting for Castro. Though a Marine, he has to deal with the conflict of his heritage, both Cuban and American.-External links:*...
  
  , 1959, paperback 1960
• The Damnation of John Doyle Lee, 1982
• Sword of Fire, 1985
• Red Flame Burning, 1985
• Blaze of Wrath, 1986
• Torch of Fear, 1987

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