Y is for YOUNG, GORDON

PULP FICTION late 1800s – mid 1950s

The A-Z Challenge is Y-ding down and finding a subject for “Y” was a challenge itself but I did it.                                      

Gordon Young (1886–1948) was an American writer of adventure and western stories. He was born in Ray County, Missouri and worked as a cowboy. When he moved to Los Angles he took a job at the LA Times in 1914 and eventually became Literary Editor. Sinclair Lewis was one of his correspondents.  

  

He began writing fiction for the magazine Adventure in 1917. 

Young's humorous Westerns about "Red" Clark, became his most commercially successful series.

Adventure was an American pulp magazine that was first published in November 1910 It went on to become one of the most profitable and critically acclaimed of all the American pulp magazines 

                                   

Always,

Em-Musing

JOY-JUICE

The alphabet is a journey of 26 letters...

Each one begins a new story.

I look back at those months of editing and smile…
As a neophyte…
I had so much…
Joy.
I was Juiced up!
(creatively speaking)
I downed her input...
Like shots of tequila lined up at a bar on ladies night.
(not that I've ever done that)
And then the fantasies began...
Me? A published author?
My own thoughts intoxicated me...
I was dizzy with anticipation...
It felt so good in fact....
It was as if I just experienced my first...
Ah, ah, ah…
For the rest of the story, you’ll have to wait for “K”. K?

Always, Em-Musing