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When talking about the authors who used pseudo names and remained a mystery for decades, James Reasoner an American author tops the list. He used Jim Austin, Tabor Evans, Peter Danielson, Wesley Ellis, Terrance Duncan, Jake Foster, Tom Early, William Grant, Livia James, Matthew Hart, Justin Ladd, Mike Jameson, Hank Mitchum, Jake Logan, Lee Morgan and J.L. Reasoner as his alias. That is really a long list of pseudo names.

He is a top notch writer who wrote a huge number of titles on war and early American tales. There are more than 200 titles published by James Reasoner either under his own name or an alias.

He is not confined to a genre, he wrote about war, crime, mystery, history and many more genres. At one time, he wrote a few titles for some of the best novel series in the American history. Generally, most of his work is written under his pseudo names.

Early and Personal Life

James Reasoner was born in Fort Worth, Texas on 5 June 1953. He was moved to Azle Texas when he was just two weeks old and he still resides at the same place. He studied at North Texas State University which was again in Texas. He married Livia Washburn another award winning author in 1976. The couple has two daughters and the family lives happily in the same old Texas home. James Reasoner has spent all his life living in Texas and continues to be a proud lifelong Texan.

He wrote several books with his wife as a co-author and the couple is known for their great coordination in fiction as well as in their real life.

Writing Career

Reasoner started his early career as a freelance writer working for newspapers. He later opened two book stores in Texas and shifted his focus to professional book writing. In his early career he was confined to single genre fictional stories of the old west. With more than 100 books he is the author who has published the largest number of titles in the genre.

He then shifted his focus to another genre the stories of American history. The American Civil War, the American Revolution were his favorite genre for a while and he wrote a good number of historical titles.

He then started to write for well-established series of novels for renowned publishing houses. He wrote many prequels and sequels in this phase and wrote some best-selling novels at this point.

His six books of prequel for Noel Gerson’s Wagon West series in the nineties were a few of his most appreciated works. He authored the novel Texas Wind in mystery genre. The book is one of his best creations and he is known in the genre for the book. He has received a huge appreciation and awards for his work including the Peacemaker award. The best part is he plans to never retire and wants to write until there are people who want to read what he writes.

Bestselling Books

James Reasoner authored several bestselling titles. Some are under his own name and some are under his pseudo names. Here are some of his best-selling titles.

1. Texas Wind

In 1980, James Reasoner wrote his best-selling novel Texas Wind, a mystery novel based out of Texas. It is a thrilling mystery novel which is known for its fast paced and thrilling twists and turns. The book is about a murder mystery of a girl named Mandy Turf a twenty year old daughter of a business man. The story gets complicated when bodies start piling when the investigating officer Cody tried to find the missing girl.

The book was published in 1980 and it went for a reprint in 2004 in Hardcover edition. The book is one of the best suspense novels of all times and a marvel to read.

2. Manassas

One of the best books based on American Civil War was written by James Reasoner in late nineteen eighties. The title was about a family caught up in the middle of American Civil War. The story is about a widow, her four sons and a daughter who do not have slaves but are caught in the middle of Civil War. The tensions of conflicts with notorious Forgaty clan. Will Baron a country sheriff kill one of the Forgaty family members while trying to arrest him. Now the family wants to take the advantage of the Civil War as an opportunity to settle scores with the sheriff.

3. Wind River

The story is about a buffalo hunter and former army scout Cole Tyler who is forced to take the job of the town marshal in the Wind River, a primitive outpost of the wild Wyoming territory. The story is about his struggles and his efforts towards survival and bringing order in the area.

4. The Hunted

The book is one of the many books written by James Reasoner with American Civil War as a pretext. The book is about the brutal civil war and its consequences on an individual. When Even Littleton arrives in his village after two years in Yankee prison, he finds his wife dead and the farm taken over by Yankees. His six children are missing and he has no money or horse and winter is coming. With no hope for life, he engages in a fearsome battle against outlaws, police, and Indians. The story is a thriller with great suspense.

5. Blood And Gold

It is one of the books of the series Outlaw Ranger and is one of the best-selling books of James Reasoner. The story begins with a massacre with at least 20 men killed and a huge stash of gold is stolen. The story is about a town Cemetery Butte and the powerful mining tycoon G.W. Braddock who is used to silence every voice raised against him. He engages in a war with ranger with many twists and turns and a breath taking story.

These are the books which gained James Reasoner a lot of fame and appreciation as an author with a very high skills of creating suspense, giving unexpected twists and creating mind boggling stories. He switched his genre many times in his career but he created masterpieces in most of them. With more than thirty pseudo names, he is definitely one the writers with a large number of pseudo names.