Ru Pullan (1916–1993) was an Australian writer of radio, television, novels, short stories and theatre.[1] He was one of the leading radio writers in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s.[2][3] Writing as Luke Hardin, Cass Durand and Lew Rand, he published 50 novels in the western genre between 1962 and 1970. He also wrote romance novels using the pseudonyms Paul Easton and Wynne Barrie.[4]