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George G. Gilman -- a pseudonym created and used by the near-legendary Terry Harknett -- is so well-known to western readers that he hardly needs any introduction from me.

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Arguably the most influential British western writer of the last 40 years, his tough, graphic, wise-cracking westerns are still in demand, even though almost twenty years have now passed since the last one was published. Although his earliest ambition was to become a car mechanic, he changed his mind upon leaving Rainham Secondary Modern School in , and chose instead to pursue a career as a reporter.

He went to work as a copy boy at Reuters News Agency, and later became a typist at Reuters Comtelburo. It was here, whilst on night duty in , that he wrote and sold his first short story, a romance entitled Katie's Birthday. Although he had no particular interest in the western apart from a very general impression of the form culled from the western movies he'd seen, his first western short story, Guns at the Silver Horseshoe , appeared in the 14 January issue of Reveille.

In he was called up for National Service, and served in the Royal Air Force until , when he returned to civilian life and went to work as a publicity assistant at the British office of Twentieth Century Fox. He married Jane Harman in , and became a reporter and features editor for National Newsagent , a weekly book trade magazine, in Raymond Chandler had been an early influence on Harknett, and after selling some two dozen short stories to a variety of publications, he finally published his first full length novel, a thriller called The Benevolent Blackmailer , in Over the next decade he wrote a further eight of these "Stephen Wayne" mysteries.

In his capacity as features editor for National Newsagent , he also interviewed Louis L'Amour in