Steve Frazee

Steve Frazee (1909-1992) began selling stories to Western and adventure pulp magazines in the late 1940s. His short story "My Brother Down There" won first place in the highly competitive annual story contest conducted by Ellery Queen Mytery Magazine. The story was also selected for Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories of the Year, a rare honor for a genre story. He expanded the story into the novel Moving Target and collaborated on the screenplay when it was filmed in 1957. Best known for his Western fiction, Frazee served as president of the Western Writers of America. He won the Western Heritage Award and was honored by the Cowboy Hall of Fame.