Alan Le May

Who was Alan Le May?

Alan Brown Le May was an American novelist and screenplay writer.

He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers and The Unforgiven. They were adapted into the motion pictures The Searchers and The Unforgiven.

He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Reap the Wild Wind and Blackbeard the Pirate, North West Mounted Police, and the novel for Along Came Jones, as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of novels and short stories. Le May also wrote and directed High Lonesome.