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- Birth nameJohn Thomas Edson
- J.T. Edson was born on February 17, 1928 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Trigger Fast (1994), Guns of Honor (1994) and Read All About It (1974). He died on July 17, 2014 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK.
- Wrote 137 Westerns, which sold 27 million copies.
- His character The Ysabel Kid was an amalgam of Elvis Presley in Flaming Star (1960).
- Came from a family of coal miners. His father died in a mining accident when Edson was 9.
- Based Dusty Fog, his most-popular character, on Audie Murphy.
- Such was his popularity as an author, a JT Edson Appreciation Society was founded, which boasted 1,500 members worldwide. He retired in 2005 due to ill health.
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