Owen Wister was an American novelist whose novel The Virginian (1902) helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature.
Grey's novels however denigrated by critics as empurpled froths of 'virgins, villains and varmints' were only part of the allure that fixed his name in the hearts of millions of Americans.
Sea fiction a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
