Trivia

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."