author
George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
1877–1937
An early 20th-century American novelist from Nebraska, he wrote brisk adventure and western fiction that was popular enough to reach both magazines and the movies. Several of his stories were later adapted for the screen, including The Incorrigible Dukane and In the Shadow of the Hills.
2 Audiobooks
The Iron Furrow
by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
In the Shadow of the Hills
by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
About the author
Born in Ashland, Nebraska, in 1877, George C. Shedd built a career as a prolific American writer in the early decades of the 20th century. Reliable sources identify him as George Clifford Shedd, and Nebraska literary references connect him with the state's long tradition of popular western and adventure writing.
His fiction found a wide audience, and more than one of his novels made the jump to film. The Incorrigible Dukane was adapted into a 1915 movie starring John Barrymore, while In the Shadow of the Hills later became the 1921 film Cold Steel.
Shedd died in 1937. Although he is not as widely remembered today as some of his contemporaries, his work still offers a vivid glimpse of the fast-moving, action-centered storytelling that readers of popular fiction loved in his time.