Biography

Richard Wormser was born on February 2, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Big Steal (1949), Sworn Enemy (1936) and Start Cheering (1938). He was married to Jewel St. Leger Aldrich. He died in July 1977 in Tumacacori, Arizona, USA.

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."