Robert Ames Bennet Explained

Robert Ames Bennet
Pseudonym:	Lee Robinet
Birth Date:	3 February 1870^[1]
Birth Place:	Denver, Colorado
Occupation:	Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality:	American
Genre:	Western, Science fiction

Robert Ames Bennet (1870–1954) was an American writer of westerns and science fiction. Early in his career Bennet wrote short stories, drama scripts, and novels for a variety of genres under the pen name Lee Robinet. By the 1930s he was primarily a western writer, penning such stories as Caught in the Wild, Go-Getter Gary, and Guns on the Rio Grande. Several of his novels were made into films, including "Finders Keepers" and "Out of the Depths". His Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit is considered a classic of the Lost World genre and is listed in a collection of the best efforts in Science-Fantasy up to and including 1950.

Selected works

• Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit (1901)
• For The White Christ (1905) ^[1]
• Into The Primitive (1908)
• A Volunteer With Pike (1909)
• The Shogun's Daughter (1910)
• Out of the Primitive (1911)
• Which One? (1912)
• Out of the Depths (1913)
• The Forest Maiden (1913)
• The Quarterbreed (1914)^[1]
• The Bowl of Baal (1917)
• The Blond Beast (1918)
• Bloom of Cactus (1920)
• Waters of Strife (1920)
• Tyrrel of the Cow Country (1921)
• Branded (1924)
• The Two-Gun Man (1924)
• The Rough Rider (1925)
• Go-Getter Gary (1926)
• The Desert Girl (1928)
• The Tenderfoot (1928)
• The Sheepmans Gold (1929)
• Ken the Courageous (1930)
• Caught In The Wild (1932)
• Vengeance Valley (1933)
• The Diamond "A" Girl (1933)
• Guns on the Rio Grande (1934)
• The Deadwood Trail (1934)
• The Two-Gun Girl (1934)
• Texas Man (1934)
• White Buffalo (1935)
• Man against Mustang (1936)
• The Brand Blotters (1939)

References

• Book: Clute, John . John Clute . Peter Nicholls . Peter Nicholls (writer) . . New York. . 108–109 . 1995. 0-312-13486-X.

External links

• • • Web site: Fantastic Fiction . 2008-05-12 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Herringshaw. Thomas William. Herringshaw's American Blue Book of Biography. 1915. American Publishers' Association. Chicago. 103.