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Lester Dent
| Full Name: | Lseter Dent |
| Born: | October 24, 1904 La Plata, Missouri |
| Died: | March 11, 1959 La Plata, Missouri |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | American |
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Biography
Lester Dent also writes under the pen name of Kenneth Robeson
Lester Dent (1904-1959) was born in La Plata, Missouri. As an adult he was an imposing physical specimen, at 6'2″ and over 200 pounds, who cut a dashing figure and lived a vigorous, exciting globe trotting life. Lester Dent was married to Norma Dent, who also helped him in his writing career acting at times as his secretary.
Dent did an amazing amount of things in his life, often mastering something fully and then dropping it completely. In Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft, and His Market, by M. Martin McCarey-Laird, his wife, Norma, is reported as saying that "...he was like this with every adventure in which he involved himself; when he had exhausted his interest, he moved on to something else." But his one life long interest seemed to be writing. While working as a telegraph operator in Oklahoma, Lester Dent tried his hand at writing for Pulp magazines selling some stories. Then moved to New York City and began a successful writing career. For a while, with the Doc Savage series, Dent became one of the best selling authors of the Pulp Era. In the Doc Savage series alone, he produced 165 full-length novels (of at least 55,000 words each), one each month for about 17 years, all while living, traveling, exploring, building, and writing various other works as well.
Lester Dent is most famous for writing the lion's share of the Doc Savage series (1933-1949), under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson.
