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The king of westerns.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20051120
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Byline: Steve Goode, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

He was named Pearl Zane Grey at birth, but dropped the Pearl as a young man after, no doubt, a great deal of ribbing to become just Zane Grey, and under that name he became world famous. When he died in 1939, his publisher, Harpers, estimated that 17,000,000 copies of Grey's novels - for the most part westerns set in the past or in his own time - had been sold since "The Heritage of the Desert" appeared in 1910, a number exceeded in that time period, according to the publisher, only by sales of The Bible and The Boy Scout Handbook.

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