Key facts
- Born
- Pearl Zane Gray (later Grey) , ( 1872-01-31 ) January 31, 1872, Zanesville, Ohio , U.S.
- Died
- October 23, 1939 (1939-10-23) (aged 67), Altadena, California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Lackawaxen and Union Cemetery, Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania
- Occupation
- Novelist , dentist
- Alma mater
- University of Pennsylvania
- Genre
- Western fiction
- Notable works
- Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)
- Spouse
- Lina Elise Roth ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1905 )
- Children
- 3, including Romer and Loren
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Gray
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Zanesville
- Place of death
- Altadena
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Riders of the Purple Sage
- Field of work
- literature
- Sport
- baseball
- Image
- Zane Grey, a silent film actor and author of westerns (SAYRE 3131).jpg
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- Commons category
- Zane Grey
- date of birth
- 1872-01-31
- date of death
- 1939-10-23
- Commons Creator page
- Zane Grey
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1902-00-00
- birth name
- Pearl Zane Gray
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Encyclopedic overview
Zane Grey (born Pearl Zane Grey; January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
In addition to the success of his printed works, his books have second lives and continuing influence through adaptations for films and television. His novels and short stories were adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zane Grey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.