author
Robert Ames Bennet
1870–1954
A Colorado-born storyteller who moved easily from frontier adventure to early science fiction, he wrote tales of survival, danger, and the American West that kept magazine and pulp readers turning pages. His work ranged across genres, but he is especially remembered for westerns and a handful of imaginative speculative novels.
7 Audiobooks
Bloom of Cactus
by Robert Ames Bennet
Out of the Primitive
by Robert Ames Bennet
A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois
by Robert Ames Bennet
The Shogun's Daughter
by Robert Ames Bennet
Into the Primitive
by Robert Ames Bennet
For the White Christ: A Story of the Days of Charlemagne
by Robert Ames Bennet
Out of the Depths: A Romance of Reclamation
by Robert Ames Bennet
About the author
Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1870, Robert Ames Bennet built a long writing career that stretched across popular fiction, drama scripts, and screen-related work. Early on he sometimes used the pen name Lee Robinet, and over time he became known for writing in several genres rather than sticking to just one.
Bennet is most often associated with western fiction, and by the 1930s that became his main field. He also wrote science fiction, which is why he still draws interest from readers beyond western fans; his name appears regularly in reference works on early speculative fiction as well as in library and archival collections.
He died in 1954, but his stories remain easy to discover today through public-domain and library sources. For listeners who enjoy older popular fiction, his work offers a mix of rugged adventure, fast plotting, and a glimpse of how western and science-fiction storytelling overlapped in the early twentieth century.