Piccadilly Publishing / DUDLEY DEAN McGAUGHTY

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Piccadilly Publishing / DUDLEY DEAN McGAUGHTY

Dudley Dean McGaughey was a prolific writer of pulp westerns and popular novels, who published over one hundred books during his lifetime. He was born April 2, 1909, in Covington, TN, a cotton raising center. He was the son of Herbert Dana McGaughey and [Mary] Leora McGaughey.

He spent his early years at the Clark Ranch in the San Bernardino mountains. After college, according to the paperback biographies, he devoted himself to the writing of radio serials and magazine stories, and then did a stint with a Hollywood trade paper.

Dean Owen, the pseudonym he most often used, was then a full-time freelance writer from the early 1950s until his death. His first stories and novels were westerns, and he continued to write them throughout his career. Some of his more notable works were novels adapted from the television shows "Bonanza," "Heck Ramsey," and "The Rebel," as well as a science fiction/popular novel taken from the movie "Reptilicus." He also wrote "The Bride of Dracula" a movie tie-in for the Hammer film starring Peter Cushing.

McGaughey published under a number of pseudonyms, including Dudley Dean, Owen Dean, Lincoln Drew, Lin Evans, Owen Hodge, Owen Lynn, Dean McCoy, Bret Sanders, and Brian Wynn.

McGaughey and his wife, Penny, lived in Laguna Beach, California. He died on October 3, 1986.