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Frank Richardson Pierce
1881–1966
A prolific writer of westerns, adventure tales, and sea stories, he turned decades of travel across the American West and Alaska into vivid fiction. He also wrote for film and worked as a photojournalist, publishing under his own name and the pseudonyms Erle Stanly Pierce and Seth Ranger.
5 Audiobooks
The ice goes out
by Frank Richardson Pierce
The chinook
by Frank Richardson Pierce
Code
by Frank Richardson Pierce
Raw men
by Frank Richardson Pierce
Brown eyes and brown bear
by Frank Richardson Pierce
About the author
Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1881, he later settled in Seattle. After serving in the U.S. Navy, studying at the University of Washington, and briefly attending law school, he sold his first short story and began a writing career that lasted nearly five decades.
Pierce produced more than 1,500 short stories, along with three novels and stories adapted into four feature films. His work appeared in popular magazines including Argosy and The Saturday Evening Post, and he became especially known for western, northern, and maritime fiction.
He also traveled widely as a photojournalist for motorcycle magazines, riding from Alaska to the Mexican border. A founding member and former president of the Northwest Writers Association, later known as the Seattle Free Lances, Pierce died in Seattle on January 7, 1966.