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Welcome to Pulp Writer: the official Website for Paul S. Powers! During the 1930s and 1940s, Paul was a prolific and successful pulp fiction writer, writing over 400 stories for such pulp fiction magazines as Wild West Weekly, Weird Tales, Thrilling Western, Texas Rangers, and more. Later Paul wrote a successful and acclaimed Western novel, Doc Dillahay. Paul was a skilled craftsman who wrote in many genres, including horror, noir, animal, and historical non-fiction.

Paul is also the author of Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street, his memoir of his career as a prolific and successful pulp fiction writer during the 1930's and 1940's. Pulp Writer gives insight into a period of little-known American history: pulp fiction during the Great Depression.

Here at the Pulp Writer web site, you can:

• Find information about Paul's career as a pulp fiction writer
• Read an excerpt from Pulp Writer (new!)
  
• Read a history of Wild West Weekly
• Check out our gallery of fantastic pulp fiction covers (new!)
• Get resources to learn more about the history of pulp fiction magazines
• Find out about latest news about pulp fiction events
  
• Purchase books, pulp fiction magazines and even short stories written by Paul Powers that have never been released until now.

This site is maintained by Paul Powers' granddaughter, Laurie Powers, who orchestrated the publication of the memoir Pulp Writer and continues to manage his writing estate.

Check out Laurie's popular BLOG, Laurie's Wild West, for more lively discussions about pulp fiction and other topics.

NOW RELEASED!! A new collection of Paul Powers stories, RIDING THE PULP TRAIL, is now available on Amazon! Published by Altus Press, this collection is a combination of western stories published in several pulp fiction magazines in the mid to late 1940s, such as EXCITING WESTERN, THRILLING RANCH STORIES, and TEXAS RANGERS. It also contains six stories never before published!