He continued to write children's books through the 1960s, but thereafter concentrated on his Westerns. It won the 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for best children's book. īig Mutt, Reese's first children's book, was about a sheep dog in the badlands of North Dakota. Sheehan's Mill was described as 'a first novel with unexpected approach and fresh personal style'. Reese was 'delighted in good prose and was a fine stylist himself'. He was a major freelance contributor to The Saturday Evening Post for 18 years (1944–1962). He graduated to writing for slick and glossy magazines and sold stories to The Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, Collier's, and Playboy. He also wrote for the pulp magazine Man from U.N.C.L.E. His mysteries appeared in such magazines as Black Mask, Detective Tales, Speed Detective, Super Detective, Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. His westerns appeared in such magazines as 10 Story Western, Ace High, Argosy, Big Book Western, Dime Western Magazine, and Ranch Romances. He began writing primarily western stories for pulp magazines during the 1930s. Reese finished high school, but considered himself 'self-taught'. He is survived by his granddaughter Kimberly who is also a published author. His first Western novel was Signal Guns At Sunup using the pseudonym John Jo Carpenter.

Department of Internal Revenue and as a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner in California and as a free-lance reporter for newspapers in Mexico. Altogether he had seven children, one of whom was adopted. It was a specialized education for one job alone, the one I have.' He married Margaret Smith in 1938, was divorced, and married Norma Spivack in 1962. I may be the last professional writer who talked to those survivors of the 1880s and 1890s and who grew up in the same environment. My father was a horse breaker and former cavalryman my mother was the daughter of a frontier blacksmith and woodworker. 'I was the eldest of six children of a very poor couple. He attended school in Nebraska and Kansas. Reese was born in Sweetwater, Nebraska, and died in Santa Maria, California. His first novel Sheehan's Mill, not pf the Western genre, was published by Doubleday in 1943, during wartime publishing restrictions. He produced more than 40 Western novels and more than three hundred short stories. He won the prestigious 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for his first children's book, Big Mutt.

John Henry Reese (18 December 1910 – 15 August 1981) was an American author, mainly of Western and Crime Fiction. Western fiction, Crime Fiction, Children's Fiction

The Looters by John Henry Reese