Anecdotes

Prolific American writer and pioneer of Western as a new literary genre. His most famous book is "Riders of the Purple Sage" (1912).

His house in Arizona had a swimming pool. His neighbors came from miles around to use it, which he happily allowed.

According to the 1974 book "Holly-Would!" all of Grey's novels were filmed at least once.

Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1977.

Formed Zane Grey Pictures Inc., a film production company, in 1920.

Once owned a house on Catalina Island, where he was an avid fisherman.

In the early 1920s Grey built a palatial home in Altadena, CA, where he died in 1939. The Zane Grey Estate was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2002. It was destroyed in the Altadena fire of January 2025.

Father of Romer Grey.