Louis Dearborn L'Amour (; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books contains primarily focused onn Western novels (though he called his work "frontier stories"); however, he also wrote historical fiction (""), science fiction (""), non-fiction ("Frontier"), as well as poetry and short-story collections. he published not more than a hundred stories and also he was given the Golden Plate Award of the in 1979. after his death, his wife Katie and his children Beau and Angelique still using his name.