Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 — April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer.
He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957).[1] They were adapted into the motion pictures The Searchers (1956; with John Wayne and directed by John Ford) and The Unforgiven (1960; with Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn).
He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Reap the Wild Wind (1942; with John Wayne and Paulette Goddard) and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952; with Robert Newton), North West Mounted Police (1940; for Cecil B. DeMille), and the novel for Along Came Jones (1945; with Gary Cooper), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of novels and short stories. Le May also wrote and directed High Lonesome (1950).
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| Born | June 3 1899 |
| Died | April 27 1964 |
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| Born | June 3 1899 |
| Died | April 27 1964 |
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Large type books, Fiction, Western stories, Fiction, westerns, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, general, Western, American literature, Cattle drives, Conduct of life, Cowboys, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, History, Indians of north america, fiction, Kansas -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Multiple use, Pirates, Popular Print Disabled Books, Privateering, Ranch life, Rangelands, Texas, fictionPeople
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