Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the “father” of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. (Information from Wikipedia)
Articles in Western American Literature:
“My dear Judge”: Owen Wister’s Virginian, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Natural Law Conservatism
Wister’s “Life Among The Lowly” and Anglocentrism
The Bovine Object of Ideology: History, Gender, and the Origins of the “Classic” Western
The Western Hero as Logos, or, Unmaking Meaning
Bazarov, Prince Hal, and the Virginian
Owen Wister’s Achievement in Literary Tradition
How the Western Ends: Fenimore Cooper to Frederic Remington
The Roosevelt-Wister Connection: Some Notes on the West and the Uses of History
Romance or Realism?: Western Periodical Literature: 1893–1902
“Very Much Like A Fire-Cracker”: Owen Wister on Mark Twain
Owen Wister’s Virginian: The Genesis Of A Cultural Hero
Owen Wister’s Lin McLean: The Failure of the Vernacular Hero
Owen Wister’s “Hank’s Woman”: The Writer and His Comment
Additional Resources:
Western Writers Series, Boise State University: Owen Wister