Family: Name originally Pearl Zane Gray; born January 31, 1872, in Zanesville, OH; died October 23, 1939, in Altadena, CA; son of Lewis M. (a travelling preacher and dentist) and Josephine (Zane) Gray; married Lina Elise Roth, November 21, 1905; children: Romer, Elizabeth, Loren. Education: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, D.D.S., 1896.
WESTERN WRITINGS
Also author of seven volumes of "King of the Royal Mounted" series of "Big-Little" books for Whitman, 1936-46. OTHER
Also coauthor of screenplays The Vanishing Pioneer, 1928, and Rangle River, 1936.