Walt Morey
Author
1907 – 1992
Who was Walt Morey?
Walter "Walt" Morey, was an award-winning author of numerous works of children's fiction, set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Alaska, the places where Morey lived for all of his life. His book Gentle Ben was the basis for the 1967 movie Gentle Giant and the television show Gentle Ben.
He wrote a total of 17 published books, most of which involve as a central plot element the relationship between man and animals. Many of his works involve survival stories, or people going into the wild to "discover" themselves; redemption through nature is a common theme of Morey's works.
Morey began going to school in 1912, in Jasper, Oregon. He was never very keen on school. In 1934 he began working in a veneer plant, making brushes in a paintbrush factory and doing work in the woods. On July 8, 1934, he married his first wife, Rosalind Ogden, in Portland, Oregon. Rosalind died February 28, 1977. On June 26, 1978 he married Peggy Kilburn.
Early in his writing career, he also published numerous short pulp fiction stories. For much of his life, he was a boxer and diver, in addition to being an author.
Morey has won the following awards:
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- Born
- Feb 3, 1907
Hoquiam - Also known as
- Walter "Walt" Morey
- Walt
- Walter Morey
- Spouses
- Rosalind Ogden
(1934/07/08 - 1977/02/28) - Peggy Kilburn
(1978/06/26 - 1992/01/12)
- Rosalind Ogden
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Oregon
- Died
- Jan 12, 1992
Wilsonville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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