Frederick Nolan
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Frederick William Nolan (born March 7, 1931 Liverpool) is a British editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan, but also using the pen names Christine McGuire and Frederick H. Christian.
He was educated at Liverpool and Aberaeron in Wales. At the age of twenty one, he began the researches that established him as one of Great Britain's leading authorities on the American West. He was co-founder of The English Westerners' Society.
At the start of his career, he became first a reader, and later an editor, for Corgi (Bantam) Books in London. The move to London in the early sixties made it possible for him to pursue the other consuming interest of his life: the American musical theatre. During this time, he also began writing western fiction as Frederick H. Christian, a pseudonym derived from his own, his wife Heidi's, and his oldest son's first names.
Over the next decade, he produced fourteen westerns as well as a considerable body of journalism. All this was while working in publishing - with Transworld, then Penguin, Collins, and Granada in London, and later with Ballantine and Warner in New York.
On July 4, 1973, Nolan made his own "declaration of independence", quit his job as a highly-paid publishing executive and signed a contract to write eight full length novels in a year. Since that time he has completed over seventy books, not to mention as many biographical studies and articles for historical journals.
Due to his knowledge of Billy the Kid, and the history of this period in general, he appears frequently in TV documentaries dealing with the subject, as well as lecturing to historical societies in the UK and USA, and also on cruise ships.
His westerns included the Angel series of books, as well as five additional books in the Sudden series that had been created by Oliver Strange. The Angel series has an annoying habit of having multiple books with the same title but different stories and multiple books with different titles, but the same story.
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[edit] Books
(a selection)
[edit] Novels
- The Oshawa Project (published in the US as The Algonquin Project, a best seller on both sides of the Atlantic, later filmed by MGM as Brass Target, starring Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughan and George Kennedy)
- The Mittenwald Syndicate
- Carver's Kingdom
- White Nights, Red Dawn
- A Promise of Glory
- Blind Duty
- Field of Honor
- Wolf Trap
- Red Centre
Garrett Dossier
- Sweet Sister Death
- Alert State Black
- Designated Assassin
- Rat Run
[edit] As Christine McGuire
- Until Proven Guilty
- Until Justice is Done
[edit] As Frederick H. Christian
- Sudden Strikes Back
- Sudden at Bay
- Sudden, Apache Fighter
- Sudden - Troubleshooter
- Sudden, Dead or Alive!
[edit] As Daniel Rockfern
- Standoff at Liberty
- Ride Out to Vengeance
- Ambush in Purgatory
- Long Ride Into Hell
- Ride Clear of Daranga
- Bad Day at Agua Caliente
- Massacre in Madison
[edit] Nonfiction works
- The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall
- Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Their Music
- The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History
- Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway
- The West of Billy the Kid
- The Wild West: History, Myth and the Making of America
- Tascosa, Its Life and Gaudy Times
[edit] Translated from French
- Lucky Luke: Jesse James
- Lucky Luke: The Stage Coach
- Lucky Luke: The Dashing White Cowboy
(and fifteen other titles in the series)
