![]() ![]() It was a breakthrough title and quickly became a bestseller. It was not until 1910 that he wrote his first Western, ‘The Heritage of the Desert’. His first magazine article, about one of his fishing expeditions was published in 1902. But with ambitions to be a writer in a city with so many publishers evenings were set aside for writing. Grey set up his dental practice in New York as Dr. ![]() And he could, though in the end as a practical career move he resolved that dentistry was the way forward. ![]() Naturally arriving on a scholarship really meant you had to be able to play. He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study dentistry. His father, a difficult man, tore it to shreds and then beat him.Ī keen fisherman and with dreams of playing in the major leagues Grey was spotted by a baseball scout and received offers from colleges. By age fifteen he had written his first story ‘Jim of the Cave’. Grey was an avid reader of adventure stories, consuming dime store novels by the dozen. From an early age, he was intrigued by history, fishing, baseball, and writing. Pearl Zane Grey was born on 31st January 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. ![]()
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