Nationality American Role Writer Name Noel Loomis | Spouse(s) Elizabeth Moore Green Education University of Oklahoma | |
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Full Name Noel Miller Loomis Born April 3, 1905 ( 1905-04-03 ) Wakita, Grant, Oklahoma Occupation Writer, editor, teacher Died September 7, 1969, San Diego, California, United States Awards Spur Award for Best Short Story, Medicine Pipe Bearer Award, Spur Award for Best Short Fiction Books Connelly's expedition, The Buscadero, Short Cut to Red River, West to the Sun, The twilighters | ||
Alma mater University of Oklahoma | ||
Noel Loomis (April 3, 1905 – September 7, 1969) was a writer, principally of western, mystery and science-fiction, in the middle of the 20th century. Born and raised in the American West, he was sufficiently familiar with that territory to write a useful history of the Wells Fargo company.
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Personal life
Noel Loomis was born Noel Miller Loomis on April 3, 1905 in the Oklahoma Territory town of Wakita, in the Cherokee Strip, and raised in Texico, in the New Mexico Territory, and in the West Texas town of Slaton. In later life he lived in Decanso, in the San Diego, California, Back Country from 1956.
He married Dorothy Moore Green, who was also a writer, in 1945. There is evidence that he had a first wife named Johnie or Jonie, who was the mother of his children.
Career and honors
He also worked variously as a printer, newspaperman and editor.
Writings
Selected works.