Order of A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Books

A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) was an American novelist known for his western fiction and also worked as a screenwriter. He developed a love for reading early on and attempted to write fiction during high school. After majoring in journalism, he spent 22 years at the Lexington Leader before turning to fiction writing in his spare afternoons. He created the Sheriff Chick Charleston series and received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Way West, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award for the screenplay of the classic film Shane, based on Jack Schaefer's novel. Guthrie published his first novel, Murders at Moon Dance, in 1943, a western mystery, and his last novel was Murder in the Cotswolds in 1989. His final published work was the non-fiction book A Field Guide to Writing Fiction. Below is a list of A.B. Guthrie’s books in the order of their initial release: