Frank Richardson Pierce (1881–1966) was an American writer of Western and northern adventure fiction. Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and raised on the West Coast, he graduated from the University of Washington, served a year and a half in the U.S. Navy as a boatswain's mate, and worked as a clerk-stenographer for the City of Seattle before turning to writing full-time. He got his start writing travel articles for motorcycle trade journals, riding a 1919 Indian Scout from remote Alaskan villages down to towns along the Mexican border and filing photo-journalism pieces for Motorcycling and Bicycling Illustrated along the way. That road experience fed directly into his fiction. Over roughly fifty years Pierce produced more than 1,500 short stories, over a thousand of which appeared in Argosy and the Saturday Evening Post. He wrote under his own name and under two pen names, Erle Stanley Pierce and Seth Ranger, and became best known for Westerns and frozen-north adventure tales set in Alaska, drawing on fourteen research trips to the territory. He was a founding member, on 5 May 1921, and one-time president of the Northwest Writers Association, later the Seattle Free Lances, and belonged to the Authors League of America, the League of Western Writers, and the Authors Guild of America. He died in Seattle on 7 January 1966.
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