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John Myers Myers was an American writer. He is best known for the fantasy novel Silverlock in which a Master of Business Administration travels through a fantasy land of letters, meeting dozens of characters from myth, legend, and romance for adventure and instruction.
Myers was born to John Caldwell Myers and Alice O'Neil McCorry Myers. He was named for his grandfather John Myers, "the extra Myers, sparing me a dynastic 'II' as per race horses, cars, and yachts." Myers and grew up in various places in New York, including New Paltz and NYC. He knew from the time he was seven that he wanted to be a writer. He attended Bard St. Stephens and then Middlebury College, but was expelled from the…

Fantasy:
Silverlock (1949), E. P. Dutton, reprinted by Ace Books, ISBN 0-441-76672-2
The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter (1981), The Donning Company, ISBN 0-89865-079-8
Historical Fiction:
The Harp and the Blade (1941), subject: medieval France
Out on Any Limb (1942), subject: Elizabethan England
The Wild Yazoo (1947), subject: the Mississippi frontier
Dead Warrior (1956), western
I, Jack Swilling (1961), western
Poetry:
Maverick Zone (1961), subject: the American Old West
Non-Fiction:
The Alamo (1948)
The Last Chance: Tombstone's Early Years (1950)
Doc Holliday (1955)
The Deaths of the Bravos (1962), Western history
The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man (1963), reprinted by…