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Frank Richardson Pierce
1881–1966
A hugely prolific pulp writer from the American Northwest, he filled magazines with fast-moving western, aviation, and frontier adventure stories for decades. He is especially associated with the pen name Seth Ranger and with tales shaped by firsthand travel in Alaska and the West.
3 Audiobooks
Raw men
by Frank Richardson Pierce
The ice goes out
by Frank Richardson Pierce
Code
by Frank Richardson Pierce
About the author
Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on October 21, 1881, he grew up on the West Coast and later became part of Seattle's literary world. Sources on his papers and later biographical notes describe a varied early life that included service in the U.S. Navy and study at the University of Washington before he turned fully to writing.
He became one of the most productive pulp authors of his era, publishing under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Seth Ranger and Erle Stanly Pierce. Archive and reference sources credit him with a long career of magazine fiction, especially westerns, aviation stories, and rugged tales set in Alaska and the far Northwest; some of his work was also adapted for film.
His background seems to have fed directly into his fiction. Collections of his papers and photographs preserve evidence of extensive travel, including trips in Alaska and across the West, which helps explain the vivid outdoors settings in many of his stories. He died on January 7, 1966.