author
George Pattullo
1879–1967
A globe-trotting journalist turned storyteller, he wrote vivid fiction and reportage shaped by newspaper work, war correspondence, and years spent traveling in the American Southwest. His work reached a wide magazine audience and even inspired early silent films.
2 Audiobooks
The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland
by George Pattullo
The Untamed: Range Life in the Southwest
by George Pattullo
About the author
Born in Woodstock, Ontario, in 1879, George Pattullo built his career first as a newspaper man, working in Montreal, London, and Boston before becoming widely known as a magazine writer. He contributed fiction and articles to major publications including The Saturday Evening Post, McClure's Magazine, American Magazine, and Popular Magazine.
During World War I, he served as a correspondent with the American Expeditionary Force, an experience that added authority and immediacy to his writing. He also wrote novels, often drawing on frontier and Southwestern settings, and one of his stories became the basis for the 1921 film Gasoline Gus.
Pattullo spent much of his later life in the United States and died in New York City in 1967. Today he is remembered as a versatile early 20th-century writer who moved easily between journalism, popular fiction, and screen-related storytelling.