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Grey next wrote a series of magazine articles and juvenile novels. With the birth of his first child pending, Grey felt compelled to complete his next novel, The Heritage of the Desert. He wrote it in four months in It quickly became a bestseller. Grey took his next work to Hitchcock again; this time Harper published his work, a historical romance in which Mormon characters were of central importance. Two years later Grey produced his best-known book, Riders of the Purple Sage , his all-time best-seller, and one of the most successful Western novels of all.
As Zane Grey had become a household name, after that Harper eagerly received all his manuscripts. Other publishers caught on to the commercial potential of the Western novel. Max Brand and Ernest Haycox were among the most notable of other writers of Westerns. Koerner, and Charles Russell. Grey had the time and money to engage in his first and greatest passion: From until , he was a regular contributor to Outdoor Life magazine.
As one of its first celebrity writers, he began to popularize big-game fishing. Several times he went deep-sea fishing in Florida to relax and to write in solitude. The lure of the sea is some strange magic that makes men love what they fear. The solitude of the desert is more intimate than that of the sea. Death on the shifting barren sands seems less insupportable to the imagination than death out on the boundless ocean, in the awful, windy emptiness. Man's bones yearn for dust. Over the years, Grey spent part of his time traveling and the rest of the year wrote novels and articles.
Unlike writers who could write every day, Grey would have dry spells and then sudden bursts of energy, in which he could write as much as , words in a month. He visited the Rogue River in Oregon in for a fishing expedition, and fell in love with it. He returned in the 20s eventually setting up a cabin on the lower Rogue River. Grey captured the river's essence in two books: From to , he spent a few weeks a year at his cabin on the Mogollon Rim , in Central Arizona.
After years of abandonment and decay, the cabin was restored in by Bill Goettl , a Phoenix air conditioning magnate. He opened it to the public as a free-of-charge museum. The Dude Fire destroyed the cabin in It was later reconstructed 25 miles away in the town of Payson. During the s, Grey continued to write, but the Great Depression hurt the publishing industry. His sales fell off, and he found it more difficult to sell serializations.
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He had avoided making investments that would have been affected by the stock market crash of , and continued to earn royalty income, so he did better than many financially. Nearly half of the film adaptations of his novels were made in the s. From to his death in , Grey traveled more and further from his family.
He became interested in exploring unspoiled lands, particularly the islands of South Pacific, New Zealand and Australia.
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He thought Arizona was beginning to be overrun by tourists and speculators. The so-called civilization of man and his works shall perish from the earth, while the shifting sands, the red looming walls, the purple sage, and the towering monuments, the vast brooding range show no perceptible change. The more books Grey sold, the more the established critics, such as Heywood Broun and Burton Rascoe , attacked him.
They claimed his depictions of the West were too fanciful, too violent, and not faithful to the moral realities of the frontier. They thought his characters unrealistic and much larger-than-life. Broun stated that "the substance of any two Zane Grey books could be written upon the back of a postage stamp. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga,. It lacks fluency and facility. Grey based his work in his own varied first-hand experience, supported by careful note-taking, and considerable research. In , a reviewer said Grey's "moral ideas Grey reacted with a page treatise, "My Answer to the Critics".
He defended his intentions to produce great literature in the setting of the Old West. Dolly warned him against publishing the treatise, and he retreated from a public confrontation. Grey portrayed the struggle of the Navajo to preserve their identity and culture against corrupting influences of the white government and of missionaries. This viewpoint enraged religious groups.
Grey contended, "I have studied the Navaho Indians for twelve years. I know their wrongs. The missionaries sent out there are almost everyone mean, vicious, weak, immoral, useless men. With this book, Grey completed the most productive period of his writing career, having laid out most major themes, character types, and settings. His Wanderer of the Wasteland is a thinly disguised autobiography. Several of his later writings were based in Australia. Grey co-founded the "Porpoise Club" with his friend, Robert H. Davis of Munsey's Magazine , to popularize the sport of hunting of dolphins and porpoises.
They made their first catch off Seabright, New Jersey on September 21, , where they harpooned and reeled in a bottlenose dolphin. Grey's son Loren claims in the introduction to Tales of Tahitian Waters that Zane Grey fished on average days a year through his adult life. Grey and his brother R. Zane Grey was its president from to He pioneered the fishing of Boohoo fish sailfish. Zane Grey Creek was named for him. Grey indulged his interest in fishing with visits to Australia and New Zealand.
He first visited New Zealand in and caught several large fish of great variety, including a mako shark , a ferocious fighter which presented a new challenge. Grey established a base at Otehei Bay, Urupukapuka Island in the Bay of Islands , which became a destination for the rich and famous. He wrote many articles in international sporting magazines highlighting the uniqueness of New Zealand fishing, which has produced heavy-tackle world records for the major billfish , striped marlin , black marlin, blue marlin and broadbill.
He held numerous world records during this time [64] and invented the teaser, a hookless bait that is still used today to attract fish. Grey made three additional fishing trips to New Zealand. The second was January to April , the third December to March , and the last from December to February Grey fished out of Wedgeport, Nova Scotia , for many summers. Grey also helped establish deep-sea sport fishing in New South Wales , Australia, particularly in Bermagui , which is famous for marlin fishing.
Patron of the Bermagui Sport Fishing Association for and , Grey set a number of world records, [65] [66] [67] and wrote of his experiences in his book An American Angler in Australia. From on, Grey was a frequent visitor to Tahiti. He fished the surrounding waters several months at a time and maintained a permanent fishing camp at Vairao. He claimed that these were the most difficult waters he had ever fished, but from these waters he also took some of his most important records, such as the first marlin over 1, pounds. Zane Grey died of heart failure on October 23, , at his home in Altadena, California.
Grey became one of the first millionaire authors. Zane Grey was a major force in shaping the myths of the Old West; his books and stories were adapted into other media, such as film and TV productions. Grey wrote not only Westerns, but two hunting books, six children's books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books.
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It is estimated that he wrote over nine million words in his career. There were other Western writers who had fast and furious action, but Zane Grey was the one who could make the action not only convincing but inevitable, and somehow you got the impression that the bigness of the country generated a bigness of character. Grey was President Dwight D. Eisenhower 's favorite writer. It eagerly adapted Western stories to the screen practically from its inception, with Bronco Billy Anderson becoming the first major western star.
After his first two books were adapted to the screen, Grey formed his own motion picture company. This allowed him to control production values and faithfulness to his books. After seven films he sold his company to Jesse Lasky , who was a partner of the founder of Paramount Pictures.
Paramount made a number of movies based on Grey's writings and hired him as advisor. In Grey appeared as himself in a feature film shot in Australia, White Death At the same time he provided a story that was filmed as Rangle River Grey became disenchanted by the commercial exploitation and copyright infringement of his works. He felt his stories and characters were diluted by being adapted to film. Its costars were Randolph Scott and Robert Young. The period of the s and s included the great works of John Ford , who successfully used the settings of Grey's novels in Arizona and Utah.
Preston of the Yukon on TV. More of Grey's work was featured in adapted form on the Zane Grey Show , which ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System for five months in the s, and the "Zane Grey Western Theatre", which had a five-year run of episodes. Many famous actors got their start in films based on Zane Grey books. Works published posthumously after include original novels, sequels to earlier novels, and compilations and revisions of previously published novels. Between and , films were adapted from the novels and stories of Zane Grey. In addition, three television series included episodes adapted from his work, including Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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