Order of A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Books
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) was an American novelist of western fiction in addition to being a screenwriter. Guthrie grew up reading, and tried to write fiction in high school. He went on to major in journalism and then started working at the Lexington Leader – a job he held for 22 years before he started writing fiction, which he started to do during his afternoons off. He wrote one series, the Sheriff Chick Charleston series. Guthrie was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the novel The Way West and was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay to the classic film Shane (based on Jack Schaefer‘s novel).
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. made his debut as a novelist in 1943 with the novel Murders at Moon Dance, a western mystery. His final novel was 1989’s Murder in the Cotswolds and 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 order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Sheriff Chick Charleston Mysteries Books
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Wild Pitch |
(1973) |
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The Genuine Article |
(1977) |
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No Second Wind |
(1980) |
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Playing Catch-Up |
(1985) |
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Murder in the Cotswolds |
(1989) |
Publication Order of The Big Sky Books
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The Big Sky |
(1947) |
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The Way West |
(1949) |
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Fair Land, Fair Land |
(1982) |
Publication Order of Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. Standalone Novels
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Murders at Moon Dance / Trouble at Moon Dance |
(1943) |
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Twenty-Six Years After |
(1949) |
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Kentucky |
(1951) |
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These Thousand Hills |
(1956) |
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The West Is Our Great Adventure of the Spirit |
(1959) |
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Arfive |
(1970) |
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Once Upon a Pond |
(1973) |
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The Last Valley |
(1975) |
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Four Miles From Ear Mountain |
(1987) |
Publication Order of Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. Short Story Collections
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The Big It and Other Stories |
(1972) |
Publication Order of Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. Non-Fiction Books
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The Blue Hen’s Chick |
(1965) |
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Big Sky, Fair Land |
(1974) |
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Images from the Great West |
(1990) |
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A Field Guide to Writing Fiction |
(1991) |
Note: The collection The Big It and Other Stories is also known as Mountain Medicine.