Who is zane grey

Close modal View Source. Zoom image. Zane Grey. Zane Grey Cabin on the Rogue River. Arman, Florence. The Rogue: A River to Run.

Wildwood Press, Grey, Zane. Rogue River Feud. Tales of Fresh Water Fishing. New York: A. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied to become a dentist.

Once he left school and began his dental practice in New York, Grey realized that he was not happy. He decided to leave dentistry behind and become a writer. Grey's first novel, Betty Zane , drew inspiration from the stories he had heard about frontier Ohio when he was growing up. Amereon House. The Many Faces of Zane Grey. Silver Spruce Publishing. Zane Grey: Romancing the West. Stephen J. Ohio University Press. Maverick Heart. The Further Adventures of Zane Grey. Zane Grey's Arizona.

Candace C. Northland Press. Hollywood turned 46 of his books into movies beginning in and continuing into the present, with a new version of Riders of the Purple Sage for television. The television series, The Zane Grey Western Theatre, lasted from through and produced episodes.

His novels have been translated into 20 languages and are huge sellers in Europe and South America. Pearl Zane Gray was the fourth of five children born to Lewis M. Gray and his wife Josephine Alice Zane Gray. His sisters Ella and Ida and his brother Lewis Ellsworth were older. Zane was closest to his brother Romer, who was only three years younger.

His mother chose Pearl as his first name because she admired Queen Victoria and heard that pearl gray was her favorite color. The name caused him no end of trouble. When he became a professional writer he dropped Pearl and changed the spelling of his last name to Grey.

Zanesville, the Ohio town where he was born, was named after his mother's family who founded the town. His family was not wealthy. His father made a living as a dentist and part time preacher, and fully intended that his second son would follow in his footsteps. He was a strict parent, and kept his children in line with the switch if necessary. Grey's main interests were fishing and baseball. As a teenager, girls became a focal point. Schoolwork ranked a distant fourth.

He was later to regret this when he seriously began to write. About the time he discovered fishing and baseball, Grey was introduced to books. These literary influences determined the direction that his early writing would take. Grey's father had definite ideas about what was a suitable career for his son and tore up his first story when he found it hidden in a cave.

He made Grey learn the dental business as his assistant on Saturdays. Later, Grey won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. His ability to sketch got him through his histology class and raised his grade level enough to get him on the baseball team. His pitching ability got him through dental school, not his grades.

Because New York City was the center of the writing and publishing world, Grey opened his dental office at West 74th Street in It was at this time that he changed the spelling of his surname.