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Henry Wilson Allen

Born	(1912-09-12)September 12, 1912 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died	October 26, 1991(1991-10-26) (aged 79) Van Nuys, California, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, screenwriter
Genre	Western fiction Animation

Henry Wilson "Heck" Allen (September 12, 1912 – October 26, 1991) was an American author and screenwriter. He used several different pseudonyms for his works. His 50+ novels of the American West were published under the pen names Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen's screenplays and scripts for animated shorts were credited to Heck Allen and Henry Allen.

Biography

Henry Wilson Allen was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His older brother Robert Allen was an animator who worked for MGM.^[1]^[2]^[3] Before he began his writing career he worked variously as a stablehand, shop clerk, and gold miner.^[4]

In 1937 he began working as a contract screenwriter for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. While his early work was for Harman and Ising's "Barney Bear" series, his longest collaboration was with director Tex Avery. Allen was credited as story artist on many classic Avery shorts, included Swing Shift Cinderella, Northwest Hounded Police, and King-Size Canary, among many others. Allen downplayed his contributions to the shorts, claiming that Avery merely used him as a sounding board for his own ideas.^[5] He was later fired by Fred Quimby and went to work for Walter Lantz Productions^[6] on several Woody Woodpecker cartoons that he co-wrote with Ben Hardaway including Wet Blanket Policy and Wild and Woody!. Following the 1948 shutdown of Walter Lantz Productions,^[7] Allen returned to MGM and continued to write for Avery's cartoons that were released during the 1950s including Little Johnny Jet, The Three Little Pups, and The First Bad Man.

Allen's career as a novelist began in 1950, with the publication of his first Western No Survivors. Allen, afraid that the studio would disapprove of his moonlighting, used a pen-name to avoid trouble.^[8] He would go on to publish over 50 novels, eight of which were adapted for the screen. Most of these were published under one or the other of the pseudonyms Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen was a five-time winner of the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and a recipient of the Levi Strauss Award for lifetime achievement.

Allen died of pneumonia on October 26, 1991, in Van Nuys, California. He was 79.

Partial bibliography

No Survivors, 1950
"Red Blizzard", 1951
"Wolf-Eye, The Bad One", 1951 (For Children)
Santa Fe Passage, 1952 ("Santa Fe Passage", filmed in 1955)
"To Follow a Flag", 1953 (republished as "Pillars of the Sky"), ("Pillars of the Sky", filmed in 1956)
"War Bonnet", 1953
"Yellow Hair", 1953
Death of a Legend, 1954 (republished as "The Raiders")
"The Fourth Horseman", 1954
The Tall Men, 1954 (The Tall Men, filmed in 1955)
The Big Pasture, 1955
The Brass Command, 1955
Who Rides with Wyatt, 1955 (Young Billy Young, filmed in 1969)
Red Brother and White, 1955
The Blue Mustang, 1956
The North Star, 1956 (republished as "Blind Cañon") (filmed as Tashunga (also released as The North Star), 1996)
The Texas Rangers, 1957 (For Children)
Yellowstone Kelly, 1957 (Yellowstone Kelly, filmed in 1959)
"The Seven Men at Mimbres Spring", 1958
"The Crossing", 1958
"Orphan of the North", 1958 (For Children)
From Where the Sun Now Stands, 1960 (Spur Award Winner) (The Saddleman Award), 1961
Journey to Shiloh, 1960 (Journey to Shiloh, filmed in 1968)
"Nino: The Legend of Apache Kid", 1961
"The Return of the Tall Man", 1961
The Feleen Brand, 1962
"San Juan Hill", 1962
"The Pitchfork Patrol", 1962
"The Gates of the Mountains", 1963 (Spur Award Winner)
MacKenna's Gold, 1963 (Mackenna's Gold, filmed in 1969)
"Valley of the Bear", 1964 (For Children)
In the Land of the Mandans, 1965 (For Children)
The Last Warpath, 1966
Custer's Last Stand: The Story of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1966
"Sons of the Western frontier", 1968
"Genesis Five"
One More River to Cross, 1967
"Alias Butch Cassidy"
"Maheo's Children: The Legend of Little Dried River", 1968 (republished as "The Squaw killers")
"The Day Fort Larking Fell", 1968
Genesis Five, 1968
Outlaws and Legends, 1969
"Tayopa!", 1968
"See How They Run", 1970
Starbuck, 1972
Chiricahua, 1972 (Spur Award winner)
"Outcasts of Canyon Creek"
The Bear Paw Horses, 1973
"Apache Ransom", 1974
Sex and Pain, 1975
I, Tom Horn, 1975
"Black Apache" 1976
From Where the Twilight Zone, 1976
Summer of the Gun, 1978
"Nine Lives West", 1978
"Seven Card Stud", 1981
The Legend of Sotoju Mountain, 2002
Winter Shadows, 2003
The Hunkpapa Scout, 2004
The Scout, 2005
Medicine Road, 2006

Attributed quotes

"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."^[9]

References

^ "Robert Yeats Allen". Village News. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
^ Yowp (October 28, 2011). "Tralfaz: Harman-Ising Studio Staff, 1937". Tralfaz. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
^ Yowp (December 19, 2017). "Tralfaz: Alias St. Nick". Tralfaz. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
^ "Finding Aid for the Henry Wilson Allen Papers, 1955–1985". Online Archive of California website. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
^ "Oh, Heck!". Something Old Nothing new blog. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
^ Yowp (May 7, 2013). "Tralfaz: Run For the Hills". Tralfaz. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
^ Adamson, Joe (1985). The Walter Lantz Story. New York: Putnam Books.
^ "Today's Trivia". Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine website. March 15, 2005. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
^ Harrison, Todd, "Pick a Side or Stand Aside" Archived November 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Minyanville, November 16, 2011, 8:00 am. Retrieved November 16, 2011.

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Biography

Partial bibliography

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