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Homer King Gordon
1896–1959
A writer of quick-moving adventure and Western tales, he also worked steadily in 1930s low-budget Hollywood, turning out stories and screenplays built for action. His surviving work has the brisk, energetic feel of popular storytelling made to keep readers and audiences hooked.
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Flying down a rainbow
by Homer King Gordon
About the author
Born in Illinois on April 29, 1896, Homer King Gordon was an American writer whose career reached both print fiction and the movies. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of Flying down a rainbow, while film records credit him on a run of 1930s action and Western pictures.
His screen work is tied to titles such as The Oil Raider (1934), Kentucky Blue Streak (1935), Suicide Squad (1935), Rip Roaring Riley (1935), and In Old Montana (1939). Taken together, those credits suggest a writer at home with fast plots, frontier settings, and the lean excitement of B-westerns and adventure films.
Although not much detailed biographical information is easy to confirm, the record that remains shows a versatile storyteller who moved comfortably between pulp-style fiction and screenwriting. He died in November 1959.