A Twentieth-century American author, she is best known for such popular Western-themed short story collections as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and A Man Called Horse. These two works, as well as her 1957 short fiction collection, The Hanging Tree, were adapted into films. She published her first story, Belulah Bunny, in the Saturday Evening Post just before World War II. When the war began, she temporarily abandoned her writing to assist on the home front.
