David L. Robbins (Oregon writer)

David L. Robbins
David L. Robbins
	Author David L. Robbins (Oregon)
Born	July 4, 1950 (age 73)
Pen name	David Robbins, David Thompson, Jake McMasters, Jon Sharpe, Ralph Compton, John Killdeer, J.D.Cameron, Dean McElwain, Don Pendleton, Franklyn W. Dixon
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Period	1981 to present
Genre	Westerns, Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Men's Adventure
Notable works	MEN OF HONOR, the Wilderness Series, the Endworld series
Website
	www.davidrobbinsauthor.com

David L. Robbins (born July 4, 1950)^[1] is an American author of English and Pennsylvania Dutch descent. He writes both fiction and non-fiction. He has written over three hundred books under his own name and many pen names, among them: David Thompson, Jake McMasters, Jon Sharpe, Don Pendleton, Franklin W. Dixon, Ralph Compton, Dean L. McElwain, J.D. Cameron and John Killdeer.

He has written for the following series: The Trailsman, Mack Bolan, Endworld, Blade, Wilderness, White Apache, Davy Crockett, Omega Sub and The Hardy Boys Casefiles. Robbins is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and Western Writers of America.

Biography[edit]

Robbins was raised in Pennsylvania. Until he was eight he lived in an outlying area of Philadelphia. Robbins spent many of his teen years on a farm owned by his Mennonite great aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Water was brought in from an outdoor pump, and they used an outhouse.^{[citation needed]}

At seventeen Robbins enlisted in the United States Air Force and became a sergeant. After his honorable discharge he attended college and went into broadcasting. He worked as an announcer and engineer and later as a program director at various radio stations. Later still he entered law enforcement and then took to writing full-time.^{[citation needed]}

At one time or another Robbins has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Montana, Colorado and the Pacific Northwest. He spent a year and a half in Europe, traveling through France, Italy, Greece and Germany. He lived for more than a year in Turkey.^{[citation needed]}

His writing has been critically praised by the Pulp Rack, among others.^{[citation needed]} He is known for two current long-running series.

Wilderness is the generational saga of a Mountain Man and his Shoshone wife. Started in 1990 under his David Thompson pen name, the series has nearly eighty books to date. Robbins has since stopped using pen names on his own works, and WILDERNESS is now under his own name.
Endworld is a science fiction series under his own name started in 1986. There are forty-two books, and it is still being published.

His works have been published in nine languages.

Robbins suffers from familial hemiplegic migraine. His father had the same condition, and would isolate himself in a dark room for days at a time to recover. Robbins' eyes are extremely light sensitive, and for years he has worn custom prescription Aviator sunglasses to reduce the frequency of the attacks.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography[edit]

Single novels as David Robbins[edit]

The Return Of The Virginian
Diablo
Blood Feud
Thunder Valley
Town Tamers
Angel l U: Let There Be Light
Ride To Valor
Badlanders
Guns on the Prairie
Angel U: Demigod
Hit Radio

Endworld[edit]

Written as David Robbins

Endworld is a Scifi series launched in 1986^[2] under the name David Robbins. The novels take place in a post-apocalyptic United States.

Blade[edit]

Blade is a 13 novel sequel to Endworld written as David Robbins.

First Strike
Outlands Strike
Vampire Strike
Pipeline Strike
Pirate Strike
Crusher Strike
Terror Strike
Devil Strike
L.A. Strike
Dead Zone Strike
Quest Strike
Death Master Strike
Vengeance Strike

Suspense[edit]

Blood Cult

Horror novels[edit]

Written as David Robbins

The Wereling
The Wrath
Spectre
Hell-O-Ween
Prank Night
Spook Night
A Girl, The End Of The World And Everything

Movie adaptations[edit]

Men Of Honor
Proof Of Life
Twisted

Non-fiction[edit]

Heavy Traffic

Wilderness[edit]

Written as David Thompson

King Of The Mountain
Lure Of The Wild
Savage Rendezvous
Blood Fury
Tomahawk Revenge
Black Powder Trail
Vengenance Trail
Death Hunt
Mountain Devil
Blackfoot Massacre
Northwest Passage
Apache Blood
Mountain Manhunt
Tenderfoot
Winterkill
Blood Truce
Trapper's Blood
Mountain Cat
Iron Warrior
Wolf Pack
Black Powder
Trail's End
The Lost Valley
Mountain Madness
Frontier Mayhem
Blood Feud
Gold Rage
The Quest
Mountain Nightmare
Savages
Blood Kin
The Westward Tide
Fang And Claw
Trackdown
Frontier Fury
The Tempest
Perils In The Wind
Mountain Man
Firewater
Scar
By Duty Bound
Flames Of Justice
Vengeance
Shadow Realms
In Cruel Clutches
Untamed Country
Reap The Whirlwind
Lord Grizzly
Wolverine
People Of The Forest
Comanche Moon
Glacier Terror
The Rising Storm
Pure Of Heart
Into The Unknown
In Darkest Depths
Fear Weaver
Cry Freedom
Only The Strong
The Outcast
The Scalp Hunters
The Tears of God
Venom
Devil Moon
Seed Of Evil
Garden Of Eden
The Gift
Savage Hearts

Giant Wilderness[edit]

Hawken Fury
Season Of The Warrior
Prairie Blood
Ordeal
The Trail West
Frontier Strike
Spanish Slaughter

White Apache[edit]

Written as: Jake McMasters

Hangman's Knot
Warpath
Warrior Born
Quick Killer
Blood Bath
Blood Treachery
Blood Bounty
The Trackers
Desert Fury
Hanged

Davy Crockett[edit]

Written as: David Thompson

Homecoming
Sioux Slaughter
Blood Hunt
Mississippi Mayhem
Blood Rage
Comanche Country
Texican Terror
Cannibal Country

Compton Novels[edit]

Written as Ralph Compton

Do Or Die
Nowhere, Tx
Bucked Out In Dodge
West Of Pecos
For The Brand
By The Horns
Rio Largo
A Wolf In The Fold
Bluff City
Blood Duel
Bullet For A Badman
Ride The Hard Trail
Fatal Justice
The Evil Men Do
Brother's Keeper
The Law and the Lawless
Texas Hills

The Executioner[edit]

Written as Don Pendleton

#169: White Heat
#178: Black Hand
#191: Extreme Force
#199: Rogue Agent
#230: Deep Attack
#267: Invisible Invader
#294: Scorpion Rising
#313: Lockdown
#322: Time Bomb

SuperBolans[edit]

Written as Don Pendleton

#44: Shock Tactic
#46: Precision Kill
#51: Thermal Strike
#61: Blood Feud
#68: Code of Conflict
#75: Evil Alliance
#82: War Load
#90: Age of War

The Trailsman[edit]

Written as Jon Sharpe

#118: Arizona Slaughter
#120: Wyoming Manhunt
#122: Gold Fever
#123: Desert Death
#125: Blood Prairie
#127: Nevada Warpath
#128: Snake River Butcher
#131: Bear Town Bloodshed
#135: Mountain Mayhem
#138: Silver Fury
#141: Tomahawk Justice
#144: Abilene Ambush
#146: Nebraska Nightmare
#149: Springfielf Sharpshooters
#152: Prairie Fire
#155: Oklahoma Ordeal
#158: Texas Terror
#161: Rogue River Feud
#164: Nez Perce Nightmare
#166: Colorado Carnage
#169: Soccoro Slaughter
#170: Utah Trackdown
#173: Washington Warpath
#174: Death Valley Bloodbath
#177: Colorado Wolfpack
#178: Apache Arrows
#183: Bayou Bloodbath
#184: Rocky Mountain Nightmare
#187: Sioux War Cry
#190: Pecos Death
#192: Durango Duel
#197: Utah Uprising
#199: Wyoming Wildcats
#201: Salmon River Rage
#205: Mountain Mankillers
#208: Arizona Renegades
#211: Badlands Bloodbath
#214: Texas Hellion
#216: High Sierra Horror
#217: Dakota Deception
#220: Montana Gunsharps
#222: Colorado Diamond Dupe
#226: Nebraska Slaying Ground
#228: Wyoming Warcry
#232: Pacific Phantoms
#235: Flathead Fury
#237: Dakota Damnation
#244: Pacific Polecats
#247: Seven Devils Slaughter
#251: Utah Uproar
#257: Colorado Cutthroats
#261: Desert Death Trap
#264: Snake River Ruins
#272: Nevada Nemesis
#275: Ozarks Onslaught
#278: Mountain Manhunt
#284: Dakota Prairie Pirates
#295: Oasis Of Blood
#300: Backwoods Bloodbath
#303: Terror Trackdown
#306: Nebraska Night Riders
#310: Alaskan Vengeance
#312: Shanghied Six-Guns
#313: Missouri Manhunt
#317: Mountain Mystery
#321: Flathead Fury
#322: Apache Ambush
#327: Idaho Gold Fever
#328: Texas Triggers
#329: Bayou Trackdown
#333: Black Hills Badman
#340: Hannibal Rising
#341: Sierra Six-Guns
#342: Rocky Mountain Revenge
#343: Texas Hellions
#347: Dakota Death Trap
#349: New Mexico Gundown
#350: High Country Horror
#351: Terror Town
#352: Texas Tangle
#353: Bitterroot Bullets
#356: Grizzly Fury
#357: Stagecoach Sidewinders
#359: Platte River Gauntlet
#360: Texas Lead Slingers
#362: Range War
#363: Death Devil
#365: High Country Greed
#366: Mountains Of No Return
#367: Texas Tempest
#370: Blind Man's Bluff
#371: California Killers
#373: Utah Terror
#374: Forth Death
#375: Texas Swamp Fever
#377: Bounty Hunt
#378: Wyoming Winterkill
#380: Texas Tornado
#381: Bowie's Knife
#382: Terror Trackdown
#383: High Plains Massacre
#385: Thunderhead Trail
#387: Apache Vendetta
#389: Outlaw Trackdown
#391: Night Terror
#392: Colorado Carnage
#393: Six-Gun Inferno
#394: Burning Bullets
#398: Arizona Ambushers

Giant Trailsman[edit]

Woodland Warriors
New Mexico Nightmare
Menagerie Of Malice
Island Devils
Idaho Blood Spur
Desert Duel (Feb. 07)

Mountain Majesty[edit]

#7: Fire On The Prairie
#8: The Savage Land

Preacher's Law[edit]

#5: Slaughter At Ten Sleep

Omega Sub[edit]

#2: Command Decision
#4: Blood Tide
#5: Death Dive
#6: Raven Rising

The Hardy Boys Casefiles[edit]

Written as: Franklin W. Dixon

57: Terror on Track

References[edit]

^ Library of Congress authority record, mirrored through LibraryThing
^ "David Robbins bio". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 2008-02-19.

External links[edit]

David L. Robbins, Author (archived 2015-10-09, homepage maybe identical to 2008-10-06)
David Robbins at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
David Robbins at Library of Congress, with 38 library catalog records

[LoC_authority-1] Library of Congress authority record, mirrored through LibraryThing

[2] "David Robbins bio". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 2008-02-19.

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