![]() ![]() Furthermore, he branched out as a writer and wrote five series of short stories (Dan Hollick, Dog Handler) for the Victor boys papers, and wrote the "box captions" for comic strips, which instilled discipline and the ability to convey maximum information with minimum words. ![]() He had the need for supplementary income from time-to-time and also served as a postman, and the proprietor of a fish 'n' chip shop. Upon leaving HM forces, JT won second prize (with Trail Boss) in the Western division of a Literary Competition run by Brown & Watson Ltd, which led to the publication of 46 novels with them, becoming a major earner for the company. Acquiring a typewriter in the early 1950s and putting it to good use while posted to Hong Kong, by the time of his discharge he had written 10 Westerns, an early version of Bunduki and the first of the short detective-type stories starring Waco. His first appearance in print was "Hints On Self-Preservation when attacked by a War Dog" in the Osnabrück camp magazine Shufti in 1947. He also sat through hours of movies starring John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn and his all-time favourite, Audie Murphy. Cooped up in barracks for long periods, he devoured books by the great escapist writers (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert McCraig, Nelson C. Now lives in Leicester, Leicestershire.ĭuring his 20s and 30s, Edson served in His Majesty's Armed Forces for 12 years as a Dog Trainer. His writing was helped to develop by a schoolteacher who encouraged him. One thing that always intrigued him was the minutiae-how did the baddie's gun jam? What were the mechanics of cheating at cards? How did Westerners really dress and speak? He was born in 1928.He was obsessed with Westerns from an early age and often "rewrote" cowboy movies that he had seen at the cinema. John Thomas Edson is an English writer of Westerns. ![]()
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