Autor/-in: D. B. Newton

Dwight Bennett Newton was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and began to write short stories for Western magazines while studying history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. After graduating with a master's degree in 1942, he served in the Army Corps of Engineers until 1946, based at Camp Abbot, a training center near Bend, Oregon. After the war, he settled in Bend and became a professional writer, and in 1952, Newton was one of the six founder members of Western Writers of America, Inc. , serving as its first secretary-treasurer, and as a board member for ten years. In the late 1950s, Newton moved to Hollywood to work as a writer and story consultant for several television shows, including Death Valley Days, Wagon Train, and Tales of Wells Fargo, before returning to Bend in 1965. During the 1970s, he gave classes in fiction writing at Central Oregon Community College and at the Haystack summer school at Cannon Beach. He died at his home in Bend, aged 97, in 2013. During his sixty-year writing career, Newton published 74 Western novels and hundreds of short stories under various names, including Dwight Bennett, Clement Hardin, Ford Logan, Dan Temple and Hank Mitchum (contribution eight to the long-running Stagecoach Station series in the 1980s).