Winner of the 1960 and 1971 Spur Awards of the Western Writers of
America for Best Juvenile. Editor at and writer for the famous pulp
publishing house, Street & Smith, in early career. In the late 1930s
moved to California to be a rancher; in the early 1940s served as a
mounted patrolman with the U.S. Forest Service in the Palomar Ranger
District and the Cleveland National Forest; in the late 1940s a movie
scriptwriter. He and his wife also had homes in Arizona and New Mexico.
He should not be confused with the former newspaper reporter,
writer/producer/director and teacher of film and video production
courses, Richard Wormser (b. 22 November 1933) who wrote "Growing up in
the Great Depression."
