Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) Powers

Paul S. Powers, born Paul Sylvester Powers in 1905 and deceased in 1971, was an American pulp writer whose busiest years ran from the 1920s through the 1940s. He became especially well known for Western fiction and for creating two of Wild West Weekly's popular recurring heroes, Sonny Tabor and Kid Wolf.

Although Westerns were his best-known field, Powers wrote widely across genres. Sources on his work note stories in horror, detective fiction, noir, romance, and historical writing, and several of his early pieces appeared in Weird Tales in 1925 and 1926. He also wrote the novel Doc Dillahay, published in 1949.

Later accounts of his career describe him as more than a pulp professional: he also developed a reputation as an expert in western Americana and rare books. That mix of high output, genre range, and deep interest in the history of the American West helps explain why his fiction still attracts readers of classic pulp adventure.