Awards & Winners

Wayne D. Overholser

Date of Birth 04-September-1906
Place of Birth Pomeroy
(Garfield County, Washington)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Lee Leighton, Joseph Wayne
Wayne D. Overholser was an American Western writer. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. In 1955 he won the 1954 Spur Award for The Violent Land. Three additional pseudonyms were John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne.

Awards by Wayne D. Overholser

Check all the awards nominated and won by Wayne D. Overholser.

1969


Spur Award for Best Juvenile Fiction
Honored for : The Meeker Massacre

1954


Medicine Pipe Bearer Award
Honored for : The Violent Land

1953


Medicine Pipe Bearer Award
Honored for : Law Man