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Frank Roderus


Born
in The United States
September 21, 1942

Died
December 17, 2015

Genre
Western


Frank Roderus wrote his first story—it was a western—when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died.
Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not. He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right. That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago.
As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank Roderus their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Fran ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 9,336 ratings · 387 reviews · 95 distinct works • Similar authors
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“troop,”
― Frank Roderus, Trooper Donovan
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“And when you are hungry, effective beats sport all hollow.”
― Frank Roderus, Morgan
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“That horse was maybe the ugliest, square-headed animal I had ever laid eyes on and so stupid it couldn’t find grass if it wasn’t standing on it. So timid it would spook at a rock just on the notion the thing might jump at him and so slow you started back to the wagon for dinner as soon as you’d had breakfast. Still, he didn’t know the meaning of quit, and I was used to him so I scratched him behind the ears a little”
― Frank Roderus, Journey to Utah / Charlie and the Sir / The Herdsman
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