Richard Wormser

Richard Wormser
BornRichard Edward Wormser
(1908-02-02)February 2, 1908
New York City, New York
Pen nameEd Friend

Richard Edward Wormser (February 2, 1908, in New York City, New York – July, c. 1977 in Tumacaciori, Arizona) was an American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 12 books, many screenplays, and stories turned into screenplays, and a cookbook: Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range.