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Glendon Swarthout was the only child of Fred and Lila (Chubb) Swarthout, a banker and a homemaker. Swarthout is a Dutch name; his mother's maiden name was from Yorkshire. Swarthout generally did well in school, especially in English. He was a Michigan high-school debate champion.
THE SHOOTIST. by Glendon Swarthout ‧RELEASE DATE: Jan. 24, 1974. One of Swarthout's likable scenarios of the year 1901 when John B. Books, a shootist (that's an elegant word for desperado) rides into El Paso in his Stetson and his Prince Albert coat, cushioned by a pillow from a whorehouse.
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The Shootist is a classic Western novel written by Glendon Swarthout in 1975. It won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel of 1975, and was chosen in the Western Writers of America’s members’ poll in 2000 as one of the 10 greatest Western novels of the 20th century.
The Shootist is a 1976 American Western film directed by Don Siegel and based on Glendon Swarthout's 1975 novel of the same name, [2] and written by Miles Hood Swarthout (the son of the author) and Scott Hale.
Oct 1, 2011 · Glendon Swarthout. U of Nebraska Press, Oct 1, 2011 - Fiction - 215 pages. By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gunfighter at the...
Mar 9, 2024 · Aging gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne) learns the official word on his failing health from Doctor E.W. Hostetler (James Stewart): he has cancer and could be dead in six weeks. Books’ old time notoriety as a killer makes him a pariah in respectable company.
