Robert Ames Bennet

Robert Ames Bennet (1870–1954) was an American writer of westerns and science fiction. Early in his career Bennet wrote short stories, drama scripts, and novels for a variety of genres under the pen name Lee Robinet. By the 1930s he was primarily a western writer, penning such stories as Caught in the Wild, Go-Getter Gary, and Guns on the Rio Grande. Several of his novels were made into films, including "Finders Keepers" and "Out of the Depths". His Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit is considered a classic of the Lost World genre and is listed in 333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel a collection of the best efforts in Science-Fantasy up to and including 1950.

Robert Ames Bennet
Born	(1870-02-03)February 3, 1870[1] Denver, Colorado[1]
Died	March 11, 1954(1954-03-11) (aged 84)
Pen name	Lee Robinet
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality	American
Genre	Western, Science fiction

Bennet's "Sunnie of Timberline" was serialized in The Argosy in 1918

Selected works

• Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit (1901)
• For The White Christ (1905)^[1]
• Into The Primitive (1908)
• A Volunteer With Pike (1909)
• The Shogun's Daughter (1910)
• Out of the Primitive (1911)
• Which One? (1912)
• Out of the Depths (1913)
• The Forest Maiden (1913)
• The Quarterbreed (1914)^[1]
• The Bowl of Baal (1917)
• The Blond Beast (1918)
• Bloom of Cactus (1920)
• Waters of Strife (1920)
• Tyrrel of the Cow Country (1921)
• Branded (1924)
• The Two-Gun Man (1924)
• The Rough Rider (1925)
• Go-Getter Gary (1926)
• The Desert Girl (1928)
• The Tenderfoot (1928)
• The Sheepmans Gold (1929)
• Ken the Courageous (1930)
• Caught In The Wild (1932)
• Vengeance Valley (1933)
• The Diamond "A" Girl (1933)
• Guns on the Rio Grande (1934)
• The Deadwood Trail (1934)
• The Two-Gun Girl (1934)
• Texas Man (1934)
• White Buffalo (1935)
• Man against Mustang (1936)
• The Brand Blotters (1939)

References

• Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-312-13486-X.

1. Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. (1915). Herringshaw's American Blue Book of Biography. Chicago: American Publishers' Association. p. 103.

External links

• Robert Ames Bennet at IMDb
• Robert Ames Bennet at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• "Fantastic Fiction". Retrieved 2008-05-12.
• Works by Robert Ames Bennet at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Robert Ames Bennet at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Robert Ames Bennet at the Internet Archive
• Robert Ames Bennet at Find a Grave