Lawrence Donovan

Lawrence Donovan was an American pulp fiction writer who wrote several Doc Savage novels under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson, a pen name that was used by other writers of the same publishing house. However, there are nine Doc Savage novels dully credited to Donovan, published between November 1935 and July 1937. He died in 1950.

Doc Savage novels by Donovan

• Murder Melody ·November 1935.
• Murder Mirage January 1936
• The Men Who Smiled No More April 1936
• The Haunted Ocean June 1936
• The Black Spot July 1936
• Cold Death September 1936
• Land of Long Juju January 1937
• Mad Eyes May 1937
• He Could Stop the World July 1937

Donovan also wrote the early Whisperer novels as Clifford Goodrich and The Skipper as Wallace Brooker, surrendering both series and their housenames to other writers in 1938/39. He contributed novels to other pulp hero series like The Phantom Detective, The Black Bat, The Masked Detective and some of the Pete Rice short stories in Wild West Weekly. His known personal pen names include Don Laurence, Don Lawrence and Larry Dunn, which he used when contributing to Spicy Detective Stories and Spicy Western Stories.