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	Lester Dent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dent was born in 1904 in La Plata, Missouri.
		Dent, a voracious reader, was very familiar with pulp magazines of the day, and was sure he could write as least as well, if not better.
		Dent appears as a character in the 2006 novel The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lester_Dent (1073 words)

	Lester Dent - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lester Dent (1904 - 1959) was a prolific pulp fiction author of numerous stories, best known as the main author of the series of stories about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage.
		All stories were credited to the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson and written by several authors, the vast majority by Dent.
		Lester Dent, Doc Savage Novels, 1904 births and 1959 deaths.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Lester_Dent (160 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lester Dent
		Harold A. Davis was a pulp fiction writer who wrote several Doc Savage novels under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson: Doc Savage novels writen by Davis The King Maker--published June 1934 (with Lester Dent) Dust of Death--published October 1935 (with Lester Dent) The Land of Fear--published June 1937...
		After the development of Henry W. Ralston and the further treatment by Lester Dent, Doc Savage almost became a Superman in the fight against the evildoers of the world.
		Lester Dent (1904 - 1959) was a prolific (additional info and facts about pulp fiction) pulp fiction author of numerous stories, best known as the main author of the series of stories about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, (additional info and facts about Doc Savage) Doc Savage.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lester-Dent (3196 words)

	Doc Savage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The character was created by Street and Smith Publications executive Henry Ralston and editor John Nanovic, but fully realized by Lester Dent, who wrote most of the 190 short novels in the series, which originally ran from 1933 to 1949, published by Street and Smith and now owned by Condé Nast Publications.
		Dent, who wrote most of the 190 novels, described the hero as crossing between Sherlock Holmes with his deductive abilities, Tarzan with his outstanding physical abilities, Craig Kennedy with his scientific education and Abraham Lincoln with his goodness.
		Dent, the series' creator and principal author, had a mixed regard for his own creations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doc_Savage (1217 words)

	Lester Dent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lester Dent was the real man behind Doc Savage.
		Dent contracted the other ghost-writers to write Doc Savage adventures when he was too busy or vacationing.
		Dent however, rarely submitted a ghost-writer's manuscript without re-working it to some degree.
	members.abilnet.com /robsmalley/dent.html (61 words)

	"Officer Down" by Stephen D. Rogers
		Dent shared the sentiment since the PI was alone with an armed man on a desolate stretch of road, a man who could shoot first and falsify reports later.
		Dent was rushing to a secluded area where the rogue cops wouldn't be disturbed during their interrogation of him.
		Dent would tell Maloney that the reason Dent was still walking around was that the rogues had decided to cut him in.
	www.shredofevidence.com /aug04/officer_down.html (4910 words)

	WHMC--Columbia--Dent, Lester B., Collection, 1924-1984 (C3071)--INVENTORY
		In 1925 Lester Dent married Norma Gerling of Carrollton, Missouri.
		Dent was connected with Doc Savage magazine from its first issue in March of 1933 until its demise in 1949--writing over 150 of the 182 book-length stories personally and revising many of those produced by other ghost writers.
		Lester Dent drew upon a wide variety of personal experiences as the background or inspiration for many of his stories.
	www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/3071.html (3966 words)

	Dale Furutani: Chat Transcript on the Lester Dent method of plotting
		Lester wrote 6,000 word pulp stories and I was writing a 65,000 word novel.
		Lester says having one of these things in your plot is nice, two is better and three is "swell".
		Lester suggested something dramatic like a sailor staggering into the hero's office and gasping out the name "Eloise" before he dies.
	members.aol.com /dfurutani/chattranscript.html (2241 words)

	Doc Savage Organized : Chuck Welch
		Although Bacon wanted a return to the pre-war Doc Savage, she frequently asked Dent to re-work his plots; Return From Cormoral, for example, was written from Dent’s revised second outline--essentially a third outline--for the story.
		Dent starts off the letter “I was well into the outline for the Doc”, which Bacon had agreed he start in her letter of late November, when he decided he “should put the outline aside” to pitch plot ideas to her.
		The freighter is sunk in the north Atlantic, prior to its delivery, by an American sub and the bomb is detonated by the crew of the freighter to destroy the evidence of the plot.
	www.docsavage.org /arch/never (3125 words)

	GMing Advice from Lester Dent [Archive] - RPGnet Forums
		While reading Dent's description of this master plot, it occurred to me that he might have some useful advice for GMs.
		Dent described a story of 6000 words, that he divided into four 1500 word sections.
		The thing that bothers me most about the various pirated copies of Dent's article on the net is that it's invariably presented without its sister article, "The Slick Paper Fiction Formula" by Albert Richard Wetjen.
	forum.rpg.net /archive/index.php/t-87974.html (858 words)

	ThePulp.Net: Doc Savage
		It was Lester Dent, though, who crafted the character into the superman that he became.
		Dent, who wrote most of the adventures, described his hero – Clark “Doc” Savage Jr.
		Lester Dent’s personal papers now reside in the Univerity of Missouri’s Western Historical Manuscript Collection in Columbia, Mo. This provides a brief bio of Dent, details on when the papers were donated and an inventory of the collection.
	thepulp.net /docsavage.html (2452 words)

	Doc Pulp List
		The Adventures of Doc Savage and his associates were originally recorded in the Doc Savage pulp magazines published by Street and Smith.
		Most of these were authored by Lester Dent with several being authored by others.
		The very first novel was bylined Kenneth Roberts and the novel published in the March, 1944 issue was bylined Lester Dent.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /man-of-bronze/index2.htm (318 words)

	-DALE'S DOC SAVAGE PAGE-
		Dent was a farm boy who went to the big city
		Published in 1933, written by Lester Dent, this is the one that started it all.
		Lester Dent was rarely satisfied to say, for example, that someone had attempted to stab Doc with a knife.
	www.mindspring.com /~sheba/savage.html (1470 words)

	REVIEW: "Hades" by Lester Dent
		In Will Murray's afterword to the last Doc Savage omnibus, he mentions that Daisy Bacon wanted Dent to change "Up From Earth's Center", because she felt that having a logical explanation would cheat Doc's readers.
		It all comes out in the end, and Titus wins the lovely Lea, and Herculena develops an appreciation for Haw's jokes (The later of which may put this story in the realm of heroic fantasy).
		There were only a couple of years when Dent didn't write anything but Doc Savage.
	www.talkaboutpeople.com /group/alt.fan.doc-savage/messages/30256.html (860 words)

	Doc Savage Organized : Lester Dent was Doc Savage : Chuck Welch
		Lester Dent was Doc Savage in many respects.
		I'm a newcomer to the world of Doc but I have been impressed with Lester Dent's work so far.
		He was never what you might call a "great" writer but boy could he tell a story.
	docsavage.org /arch/2002/12/lester_dent_was.html (293 words)

	-Lester Dent biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lester Dent was born at his maternal grandparent's home
		Dent became an expert swimmer fisherman and deep sea diver.
		In February of '59 he suffered a heart attack and died on March 11 of that same year.
	www.mindspring.com /~sheba/dent.html (483 words)

	Lester Dent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lester Dent's rules for how to write a 6000 word pulp story.
		The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot.
		Lester Dent: Story teller from the sticks Lester Dent was born at his maternal grandparent's home in La Plata, Missouri on October 12,1904.
	www.robinsequence.info /info/Lester-Dent (397 words)

	Doc Savage
		Pirate of the Pacific (1933) by Lester Dent
		Peril in the North (1941) by Lester Dent
		The Derelict of Skull Shoal (1944) by Lester Dent
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /series/doc-savage (529 words)

	Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft and His Market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is far more detailed information about the pulp markets and Dent's career in Philip Jose Farmer's "Doc Savage an Apocalyptic Life".
		Fans of Doc Savage will love this book, which is about the author of the Doc Savage pulp magazine stories.
		It was fun to read about Lester Dent -- his Doc tales have been my favorites for years, and I felt like I got to know him a bit from reading this book
	www.textkit.com /0_0964100495.html (251 words)

	ChronWatch Search Results & Advanced Options (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is part of a general decline in the circulation of major dailies, but the Chronicle always stands out at the top (or bottom, however you figure) of the list leading circulation loss.
		I originally began the “Making a Dent” series during the 2004 presidential campaign with the hope of giving conservatives some ammunition to use against the strident liberal talking points being fronted by the mainstream media (MSM).
		The S.F. Chronicle reports from a speech in Southern California: “It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would overturn Roe and return our country to the days of the 1950s,” the 72-year-old Democratic senator said.
	www.chronwatch.com /site_search.asp?auth=57 (1351 words)

	ChronWatch Writers' Blog: Lester Dent Archives
		Posted by Lester Dent, October 06, 2005, 05:48 PM (Pacific)
		When the "news" media adds to the hysteria when they should be assisting with the truth, they are truly stuck on stupid.
		Pulling out, and letting the carnage really begin, is not “giving peace a chance.” It’s the dismissal of the value of the lives and future of millions whose only chance is our perseverance.
	blogs.chronwatch.com /archives/the_writers/lester_dent/index.asp (2832 words)

	Time Magazine, July 5, 1971
		Trained as a telegrapher, Dent was innocent of grammar ("of no value to we") and guilty of heinous cliches ("The warriors were certainly a chagrined lot"), but he could put out the prose at a Remingtonwrecking rate.
		The other characters in Dent's stories are understandably something of a letdown.
		Author Dent, who died in 1959, never got more than $750 for a Doc Savage novel.
	members.aol.com /the86floor/novels/timejuly.html (1046 words)

	The Greatest Pulp Hero: Doc Savage - The Man Of Bronze
		The tiny South American republics of Santa Amoza and Delezon were at war when a mysterious, hooded figure-known only as The Inca Gray-appeared and began slaughtering citizens of both sides with a strange dust that brought instant, writhing death.
		A lake that vanishes in a fireball, a gregarious blonde with an ocelot cub, and a far-off land of mystery spell trouble for Doc and his crew-and finis for the world as we know it.
		The ravings of a madman and the absence of all sea life at a Massachusetts fishing village lure Doc Savage and his crew to a small New England island bristling with gunmen, on a perilous submarine journey through the Panama Canal, and to the ravaged coasts of Occupied Japan.
	www.geocities.com /sbcentral/savage.html (10056 words)

	I wonder what O'Connor's way is (and how Lester Dent wrote his stories)..: Books
		Lester Dent, the real name of the writer of the Doc Savage novels, wrote a famous essay about the writing of short, weird menace stories.
		Each part is more exciting than the previous one and at the end an unexpected and startling fact is divulged, i.e., the head of the zombie horde was no other than the police commissioner.
		: Lester Dent, the real name of the writer of the Doc Savage novels, wrote a famous essay about the writing of short, weird menace stories.
	www.killdevilhill.com /bookchat/messages2/11586.html (411 words)

	Doc Savage Info Python Isle by Lester Dent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On June 11, 1996 Bob Bookman posted the original outline to a novel proposed for the Doc Savage series.
		According to Bob it was discovered by Will Murray on a visit to Mrs.
		Lester (Norma) Dent's home, and was to be the 21st Doc story but was never written by Dent.
	docsavage.info /arch/000590.html (2659 words)

	The Doc Savage Chronology
		Actually, most of the novels were written by Lester Dent, with some being contributed by Norman Danberg, Alan Hathway, and William Bogart.
		There is a statement that, "He was not a young man...," but I believe this to be blatant misdirection on Lester Dent's part, in order to help Doc conceal the terrible secret of Sunlight's parentage.
		Although Doc is not in on this adventure, he financed the expedition, and returns to New York in time to witness its final events.
	www.pjfarmer.com /woldnewton/Savage.htm (2950 words)

	Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		More than 200 biographical entries (that's Dashiel Hammett, Jackie Collins and Ian Fleming on the cover).
		The length of the entries range from about a half page to several pages (Lester Dent, the author of Doc Savage, for example, rates four full pages.
		The book lists all his known stories and novels, and what publications he wrote for; but it's not so detailed as to list which stories were in which issues).
	www.bookscans.com /Reference/encyclopedia_of_pulp_fiction_wri.htm (83 words)

	Alfies’ Blog » Blog Archive » The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
		As a sort of proof of concept, I’m going to use Lester Dents method, and see what happens.
		To give me some kind of deadline and actual delivery goal, I promise (dear uninterested reader) to write at least 500 words per week, each week placing the work online for rebuttal, criticism, and rewriting.
		This entry was posted on Sunday, May 8th, 2005 at 7:23 pm and is filed under Information, Amusing, personal projects.
	www.al4ie.com /?p=266 (265 words)

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