![]() ![]() He is survived by his great granddaughter Kim who is also a published author. His first Western novel was Signal Guns at Sunup written under the pseudonym of John Jo Carpenter. ![]() Department of Internal Revenue and as a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner in California and as a free-lance for newspapers in Mexico. Altogether he had seven children, one of whom was adopted. It was a specialized education for one job alone, the one I have." He married Margaret Smith in 1938, was divorced, and married Norma Spivack in 1962. I may be the last professional writer who talked to those survivors of the 1880s and 1890s and who grew up in the same environment. My father was a horse breaker and former cavalryman my mother was the daughter of a frontier blacksmith and woodworker. "I was the eldest of six children of a very poor couple. ![]() He went to school in Nebraska and Kansas. Reese was born in Sweetwater, Nebraska, and died in Santa Maria, California. His first novel Sheehan's Mill, not in the Western genre, was published by Doubleday in 1943, during wartime publishing restrictions. He produced more than 40 Western novels and well over three hundred short stories. ![]() He won the prestigious 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for his first children's book, Big Mutt. John Henry Reese (18 December 1910 – 15 August 1981) was an American author of Western and Crime Fiction. ![]()
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