Grey, Zane - 1875–1939, American writer of Western stories, b. Zanesville, Ohio, grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1896. His melodramatic tales of the West and Southwest are vivid in topographical detail but improbable in character and situation. During his lifetime over 13 million copies of his books were sold. Grey was best known for Riders of the Purple Sage (1912).
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