Todhunter Ballard
Willis Todhunter Ballard (December 13, 1903 – December 27, 1980) was a Cleveland, Ohio-born American author, known for his Westerns and mystery novels.
Pseudonyms
Ballard also wrote under the following pseudonyms: Jack Slade, Neil MacNeil, Clay Turner, John Hunter, Sam Bowie, Parker Bonner, and Brian Agar.[1]
Schooling
He attended schools in Cleveland and Westtown, Pennsylvania. In 1926 he graduated from Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.
Work
Ballard wrote thousands of magazines stories and over fifty television scripts.[2] Almost all of these stories were in the mystery or western genre. Ballard died on December 27, 1980 in Mount Dora, Florida.
Partial bibliography
- The Circle C Feud (1952)
- High Iron (1953)
- Guns of the Lawless (1956)
- Trail Town Marshall (1957)
- Trouble on the Massacre (1959)
- The Night Riders (1961)
- Gold in California! (1965)
- Lassiter (1968)
- Nowhere Left to Run (1972)
- Trails of Rage (1975)
- Sheriff of Tombstone (1977)
- Showdown
- Trails of rage (1975)
- Loco and the Wolf (1973)
- Home to Texas (1974)
- Two tons of gold
- Lost gold : a western duo
- The Californian (1971)
- Gopher gold (1962)
- West of quarantine
- A western bonanza; eight short novels of the West (1969)
Awards
- Spur Award, 1965 for ‘’Gold in California’’.
References
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