Name Todhunter Ballard Role Author | Shows Cowboy G-Men | |
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Spouse Phoebe Dwiggins (m. 1936–1980) Books Gold in California!, Dealing Out Death, The Sheriff of Tombstone, West of quarantine, Incident at Sun Mountain | ||
Willis Todhunter Ballard (December 13, 1903 – December 27, 1980) was a Cleveland, Ohio-born American author, known for his Westerns and mystery novels.
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Pseudonyms
Ballard was a prolific pulp writer, most notably for the legendary mystery magazine Black Mask under the name W. T. Ballard. He also authored several mystery and crime novels under that name. Ballard wrote western novels as Todhunter Ballard and the following pseudonyms: Jack Slade, Hunter D'Allard, Clay Turner, John Hunter, Sam Bowie, Parker Bonner, Brian Fox, and Clint Reno. He wrote numerous teleplays for shows such as Death Valley Days and Shannon.
Personal
Ballard attended schools in Cleveland and Westtown, Pennsylvania. In 1926 he graduated from Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio. He was married to Phoebe Dwiggins, daughter of Clare Victor Dwiggins, the popular American cartoonist known as "Dwig."
Work
Ballard wrote thousands of magazines stories and over fifty television scripts. Almost all of these stories were in the mystery or western genre. Ballard died on December 27, 1980 in Mount Dora, Florida.