author
Robert Alexander Wason
1874–1955
Best remembered for lively Western novels and magazine fiction, this early 20th-century American writer brought frontier adventure together with a knack for storytelling. He also reached beyond the West at times, including a notable speculative serial, which gives his work an extra spark of curiosity.
2 Audiobooks
Happy Hawkins
by Robert Alexander Wason
Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A.
by Robert Alexander Wason
About the author
Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1874, he moved to Indiana as a boy and later became known as a prolific American writer. Reference sources describe him chiefly as a novelist and short-story writer whose work was largely centered on Western themes.
Wason published during the high years of popular magazine and adventure fiction, and his stories often appeared in forms that suited broad, general readerships. He is especially associated with Western writing, though bibliographic and genre sources also note his connection to speculative fiction through The Man Who Never Died, a serialized work from 1915–1916.
He died in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, in 1955. Today, he is remembered mainly by readers of classic popular fiction, Westerns, and early pulp-era storytelling.