Frank Castle (author)

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Born(1910-05-08)May 8, 1910
Stanley, New Mexico
DiedSeptember 18, 1994(1994-09-18) (aged 84)
Lebanon, Oregon
OccupationAuthor
Genrewestern fiction, crime fiction
Frank Pulliam Castle
Born(1910-05-08)May 8, 1910
Stanley, New Mexico
DiedSeptember 18, 1994(1994-09-18) (aged 84)
Lebanon, Oregon
OccupationAuthor
Genrewestern fiction, crime fiction

Frank Pulliam Castle was an American author of western and crime fiction. He wrote as Frank Castle, Frank P. Castle, and under the pseudonyms Steve Thurman, Val Munroe, Cole Fannin, Jack Slade, and Helen B. Castle.

Castle was born May 8, 1910 in Stanley, New Mexico, one of four children of Wilbur and Ruby (Pulliam) Castle. When he was nine, the family moved to Southern California, where he grew up. He attended San Fernando High School and the University of Oklahoma, majoring in journalism, after which he served in the U.S. Navy from 1940-1946. Following his service, he returned to Southern California. He married Helen Louise (Garratt) Bevillard June 26, 1946 in El Sereno, California. She was born November 21, 1915 in Racine County, Wisconsin, daughter of Arthur Earnest and Anna Loiuse (Tange) Garratt. She had previously been married to Arthur Nestor Bevillard. Helen was a nurse, and Frank would later write a couple of nurse romances under her name. She died December 26, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. In 1988 he moved to Lebanon, Oregon, where his two living siblings resided. He died September 18, 1994 at the Villa Cascade Care Center in Lebanon, Oregon.[1]

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