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John H. Reese
John Henry Reese (18 December 1910 – 15 August 1981) was an American author of Western and Crime Fiction. He won the prestigious〔Established in 1937, the award was also known as the "New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival Award". See New York Herald Tribune#Awards〕 1952 ''New York Herald Tribune'' award for his first children's book, ''Big Mutt''. He produced more than 40 Western novels and well over three hundred short stories.〔( John Henry Reese at Fiction Magazines Index )〕 His first novel ''Sheehan's Mill'', not in the Western genre, was published by Doubleday in 1943, during war-time publishing restrictions.〔"War and the book trade" ''In'' Butler, Pierce (ed.) (1945) ''Books and libraries in wartime'' pp. 88-104, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 〕
Reese was born in Sweetwater, Nebraska, and died in Santa Maria, California. He went to school in Nebraska and Kansas. "I was the eldest of six children of a very poor couple. My father was a horse breaker and former cavalryman; my mother was the daughter of a frontier blacksmith and woodworker. I may be the last professional writer who talked to those survivors of the 1880s and 1890s and who grew up in the same environment. It was a specialized education for one job alone, the one I have."〔Sonnichsen, C. L. (1991) "Reese, John Henry" ''In'' Sadler, Geoffrey (ed.) (1991) ''Twentieth-Century Western Writers'' (2nd ed.) St. James Press, Chicago, ISBN 0-912289-98-8〕 He married Margaret Smith in 1938, was divorced, and married Norma Spivack in 1962. Altogether he had seven children, one of whom was adopted. In addition to writing, John H. Reese worked for the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue and as a reporter for the ''Los Angeles Examiner'' in California and as a free-lance for newspapers in Mexico. His first Western novel was ''Signal Guns at Sunup'' written under the pseudonym of John Jo Carpenter.
==Writing==
Reese finished high school, but considered himself "self-taught". He began writing primarily western stories for the pulps in the 1930s. His westerns appeared in such magazines as ''10 Story Western'', ''Ace High'', ''Argosy'', ''Big Book Western'', ''Dime Western Magazine'', and ''Ranch Romances''. His mysteries appeared in such magazines as ''Black Mask'', ''Detective Tales'', ''Speed Detective'', ''Super Detective'', ''Ellery Queen's'' and ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine''. He also wrote for the pulp magazine ''Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' in the 1960s. He graduated to writing for the slicks and glossies and sold stories in the high-end market to ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Collier's'', and ''Playboy''. He was a leading freelance contributor to ''The Saturday Evening Post'' for 18 years (1944–1962). Reese was "a nut about the English language", "delighted in good prose and was a fine stylist himself."〔 ''Sheehan's Mill'' was described as "a first novel with unexpected approach and fresh personal style."〔Zipprich, M. H. (15 September 1943) ''Library Journal''〕
''Big Mutt'', Reese's first children's book, was about a sheep dog in the badlands of North Dakota. It won the 1952 ''New York Herald Tribune'' award for best children's book.〔'' New York Herald Tribune'' Book Review Section, May 11, 1952.〕 He continued to write children's books through the 1960s, but thereafter concentrated on his Westerns. The ''Jesus on Horseback'' trilogy is considered his best work.〔 Among his many pseudonyms are: Eddie Abbott, John Jo Carpenter, Camford Cheavly, Camford Sheaveley, Camford Sheavely, and Cody Kennedy, Jr. The John H. Reese manuscript collection is located at the American Heritage Center (formerly the Western History Research Center) at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.〔Title: Papers, 1944-1979, Call Number: 06796, 3.25 cubic ft. (6 boxes) consists mainly of manuscripts and galleys along with stories in magazines, royalty statements and correspondence all relating to the written works of this Western fiction writer.〕 Several of his Western stories were made into films, including ''Good Day for a Hanging'' (1959) from the story ''Frontier Frenzy'', and ''The Young Land'' (1959) based upon a short story by Reese. ''Charley Varrick'' (1973) was based on his crime novel ''The Looters'', His stories were the basis for many radio and television broadcasts, including NBC's Theatre Newsstand Radio Broadcast, ABC's Five Star Matinee Radio Broadcast, and ''The DuPont Show of the Week''.
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