Theodore V. Olsen(1932-1993)
- Writer
Theodore Olsen was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He
graduated from Rhinelander High School in 1950 and from Stevens Point
State College (now the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point) in
1955. Originally, he had planned on being a comic strip artist but
eventually found his passion in writing rather than in art. In 1955,
after many rewrites, he sold his first book, Valley of the Hunted to
Ace Books. It was published in 1956 as Haven of the Hunted. Olsen has
written other genres besides westerns, including adventure, gothic,
romance and historical. He has written under various pen names as well,
such as Christopher Storm, Cass Willoughby, and Joshua Stark. His novel
The Stalking Moon was made into a movie
L'homme sauvage (1968) and
his novel Arrow in the Sun became the movie
Soldat bleu (1970) in 1970. He died
of a stroke on July 13, 1993 at his home in Rhinelander at the age of
61.
