Zane Grey (Noun)
Meaning
United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Zane Grey's love for the American West greatly influenced his writing and is reflected in many of his novels.
- He is best known as a prominent figure in shaping the Western genre of American literature, just like Zane Grey.
- Grey was also a talented angler, which he wrote about in several of his non-fiction books, just as he wrote fiction novels such as those of Zane Grey.
- Grey was also known as an early conservationist and an avid outdoorsman, an element of which he drew heavily upon when writing about characters found in works of Zane Grey.
- Romance, the environment, and conflict between nature and man, all characteristic of the style of Zane Grey.