author
Homer King Gordon
1896–1959
A prolific writer of fast-moving Western and action stories, he worked across both fiction and film in the early twentieth century. His surviving books and movie credits suggest a career built on pulp adventure, frontier drama, and low-budget Hollywood storytelling.
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Flying down a rainbow
by Homer King Gordon
About the author
Born in Illinois in 1896, Homer King Gordon was an American writer whose work turned up in both print and film. Records for his books show that Code of Men: A Western Story appeared in 1926, and Project Gutenberg lists Flying down a rainbow among his surviving fiction.
Film databases also credit him as a screenwriter and story writer on a run of 1930s action and Western pictures, including The Oil Raider (1934), Kentucky Blue Streak (1935), Suicide Squad (1935), and Rip Roaring Riley (1935). Those credits point to a writer comfortable in the world of quick, energetic popular entertainment.
He died in November 1959. Although not widely remembered today, the work that remains under his name gives a clear sense of an author drawn to adventure, momentum, and the rough-and-ready spirit of early pulp and B-movie storytelling.