Louis L'Amour Biography

Occup.	Author
From	USA
Born	March 22, 1908
Died	June 10, 1988
Aged	80 years

Louis L'Amour was an American author born upon March 22, 1908, in Jamestown, North Dakota. He was the last of seven youngsters of Dr. Louis Charles LaMoore and also his spouse, Emily Dearborn LaMoore. His papa was a large-animal veterinarian and also a political leader who served in the North Dakota Senate.

L'Amour left school when he was fifteen years of ages as well as circumnavigated the western United States to work in a variety of work such as a Navajo sheepherder, a sailor, a fighter, as well as a mine employee. He located time to check out extensively in the areas of background, science, and literary works, establishing a lifelong rate of interest in history and the American West, which ended up being the topic of much of his writing. He began composing in the late 1920s, but it was not up until the 1930s that he had success with narratives in pulp magazines.

He married his other half, Kathy Adams, in 1935, and also they had two children, Beau and Angelique. In the 1940s, L'Amour served in the Army during World War II and also worked as a film scriptwriter in Hollywood. When he returned to creating after the battle, he discovered success with a collection of western books and stories, starting with "Westward the Tide" in 1950.

Throughout his career, L'Amour wrote more than 100 stories and also virtually 400 narratives, selling more than 230 million duplicates worldwide. His books have actually been translated into greater than 30 languages, as well as several of his books have been adapted for movie as well as tv.

L'Amour was a respected writer and wrote ratings of publications a lot of which became bestsellers. He was an extremely respected author publishing 4-- 5 publications a year up until his death in 1988. L'Amour was recognized for his skill in depicting the American West, and a lot of his publications featured cowboys, Indians, and explorers. He was called the "poet laureate of the West" and got various honors as well as honors for his contributions to American literary works.

In his later years, L'Amour became interested in discovering the history and also society of East Asia, which inspired numerous of his tales. He also developed the Louis L'Amour Educational and Charitable Trust to advertise literacy as well as education and learning. He passed away of lung cancer cells on June 10, 1988, at his residence in Los Angeles, California. Regardless of his passing, L'Amour's legacy continues to survive through his numerous books, which continue to be popular with readers around the globe.

Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Louis, under the main topic Anger.

Louis L'Amour Famous Works:

1953 Hondo (Novel)
1960 The Sacketts (Novel Series)
1984 The Walking Drum (Novel)
1985 Jubal Sackett (Novel)
1986 Last of the Breed (Novel)

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15 Famous quotes by Louis L'Amour

"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder"

"Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him"

"To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain"

"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go"

"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat"

"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time"

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning"

"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more"

"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process"

"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen"

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value"

"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content"

"No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations"

"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I"

"A good beginning makes a good end"