Robert Ames Bennet
{{Short description|American writer}}
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| name = Robert Ames Bennet
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| pseudonym = Lee Robinet
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1870|02|03}}{{cite book|editor1-last=Herringshaw|editor1-first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's American Blue Book of Biography|date=1915|publisher=American Publishers' Association|location=Chicago|page=103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CZRAQAAMAAJ}}
| birth_place = Denver, Colorado
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|03|11|1870|02|03|mf=yes}}
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| occupation = Novelist, screenwriter
| nationality = American
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| genre = Western, Science fiction
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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 333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel 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)
- 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)
- 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
- {{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | author-link=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |author2-link=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | location=New York| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin | pages=108–109 | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0071557}}
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- {{cite web | title = Fantastic Fiction | url = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/robert-ames-bennet/ | accessdate = 2008-05-12 }}
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- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Robert Ames Bennet |sopt=t}}
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:American science fiction writers