Cherry Wilson
{{Short description|American novelist (1893–1976)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Cherry Wilson
| birth_name = Rosemary Jeanne Burdick
| birth_date = July 12, 1893
| birth_place = Pennsylvania, USA
| death_date = November 1976 (aged 83)
| death_place = Spokane, Washington, USA
| occupation = Novelist, journalist
| spouse = Robert Lee Wilson
| relatives =
}}
Cherry Wilson (born Rosemary Jeanne Burdick, July 12, 1893 – November 1976) was an American novelist known for her work in the Western genre. Several of her books were turned into Hollywood films.
Biography
Cherry was born in Pennsylvania, United States, to Frank Burdick and Anna Woodbury. After moving out west when she was 16, she began working in journalism; she had a column called "Cherry's Corner" that ran for more than 200 editions in The Journal Miner in Republic, Washington. She married Robert Wilson in the 1910s, and the pair was involved in homesteading, mining, taming wild mustangs.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/164168900/?terms=%22cherry%2Bwilson%22%2Bwriter|title=One Writer, at Least, Doesn't Curse Hollywood Adaptors|last=Welty|first=Howard|date=November 17, 1935|work=The Arizona Daily Star|access-date=March 15, 2019}}
She worked a lot of these experiences into the Western novels she began writing in the 1920s. She also wrote more than 100 short stories; most of these were published in the pulp magazine Western Story Magazine.Hulse, Ed (2009), The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps. Murania Press. {{ISBN|0-9795955-0-9}} (pp. 137–141). Many of her books were turned into films (including several in the Buck Jones series), although Wilson said she had no part in their production.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/47588861/?terms=%22cherry%2Bwilson%22%2Bauthor|title=Buck Jones Shown in Princess Film|date=February 27, 1928|work=The Reading Times|access-date=March 15, 2019}} "I don't want to take credit for someone else's work," she told a reporter at The Arizona Daily Star. "Hollywood knows its requirements, and as far as my own experience goes, I must admit that the changes in my stories have usually been for the best from a movie standpoint."
Selected works
- The Branded Sombrero (1927)
- Empty Saddles (1929)
- Stormy (1929)
- Black Wing's Rider (1934){{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/370133297/?terms=%22cherry%2Bwilson%22%2Bauthor|title=World of Fiction, Fact, and Fancy|last=Case|first=Elizabeth N.|date=January 7, 1934|work=The Hartford Daily Courant|access-date=March 15, 2019}}
- Stirrup Brother (1935){{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/433197866/?terms=%22cherry%2Bwilson%22%2Bauthor|title=Around Here|date=February 10, 1935|work=The El Paso Times|access-date=March 15, 2019}}
- Thunder Breaks (1936){{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/258718451/?terms=%22cherry%2Bwilson%22%2Bauthor|title=Ward Lock|date=June 14, 1936|work=The Observer|access-date=March 15, 2019}}
- Sandflow (1937){{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/365612609/?terms=%22cherry%2Bwilson%22%2Bauthor|title=At the Theatres|date=April 1, 1937|work=The News-Palladium|access-date=March 15, 2019}}
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:20th-century American women writers