Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women »

Thomas H. Pauly is a professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the author of books on Elia Kazan and the historical background of the musical Chicago.

The first accurate and thorough biography of the man behind the myths of the Old West

The New York Times - Jonathan Miles

The revelations about Grey's blue cache of journals and photos - and about Grey's considerable harem of mistresses, who openly shared him with his wife and one another - make Thomas H. Pauly's biography a major correction to the wholesome image Grey enjoyed for almost a century … The Zane Grey who emerges here is self-absorbed and adolescently melodramatic, oblivious to money and incapable of business (even though, by 1929, he was earning four times the salary of Babe Ruth). He was petty and brittle in his friendships, loving though largely absent as a father, prescient and passionate in his environmentalism, supremely competent and knowledgeable as a fisherman (he held several world angling records) but, most of all, outlandishly deluded about himself and the world he inhabited.