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(birth name:
Meares, Leonard Frank
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Also writes as: Everton, Frank (1 work); Malloy, Lester (5 works); Sterling, Val; Brennan, Ward (22 works); McCoy, Marshall (25 works); Murrell, Glenn (31 works); Nelson, Johnny (1 work); Rand, Robert E. (2 works); Sharpe, Shane E. (1 work); Shawn, Clyde B. (2 works); Thorpe, Lee; Meares, Leonard (10 works)
Born: 13 Feb 1921 Merrylands, New South Wales
Died: 4 Feb 1993 New South Wales
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Sydney born Leonard Frank Meares published 746 novels; the majority of which are westerns. His best known creation are Texas trouble-shooters Larry and Stretch. Before starting to write, Meares was in the Royal Australian Air Force, worked in the Department of Immigration and sold shoes. In the mid-1950s he bought a typewriter to write radio and film scripts. Inspired by the success of local paperback westerns, he wrote Trouble Town, which was published by the Cleveland Publishing Company in 195....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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Last amended:
3 Aug 2009