Born: 09/01/1877   Atwood
Died: 12/07/1949
Parents: Henry Walter and Eva Eunice Beach
Spouse: Edith Crater
Address(es):
Interred (with his wife) in front of Rollins College Alumni Association
Winter Park, , FL

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Woman in Ambush - Unfinished	Fiction	Adult	New York, G. P. Putnam's sons	1951
	The World in His Arms	Fiction	Adult	New York, G. P. Putnam's sons	1946
	Personal Exposures - Autobiography	Biography	Adult	New York, London, Harper & brothers	1941
	Valley of Thunder	Fiction	Adult	New York, Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated	1939
	Jungle Gold	Fiction	Adult	New York, Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated	1935
	Wild Pastures	Fiction	Adult	New York : A.L. Burt Co.	1935
	Masked Women	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York, Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated	1934
	The Hands of Dr. Locke	Biography	Adult	New York, Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated	1934
	Beyond Control	Fiction	Adult	New York : Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.	1932
	Men of the Outer Islands	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.	1932
	Money Mad	Fiction	Adult	New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation	1931
	Son of the Gods	Fiction	Adult	New York and London, Harper & brothers	1929
	Don Careless	Fiction	Adult	New York and London, Harper & brothers	1928
	The Mating Call	Fiction	Adult	New York, London, Harper & Brothers	1927
	Padlocked: A Novel	Fiction	Adult	New York, London, Harper & Brothers	1926
	The Miracle of Coral Gables	Fiction		Baird-Ward	1926
	The Goose Woman	Fiction	Adult	New York : A.L. Burt	1925
	North of Fifty-three	Fiction	Adult	Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Co.	1924
	Big brother : and other stories	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York : A.L. Burt	1923
	Four in One Adventures	Fiction		Garden City	1923
	Flowing Gold	Fiction	Adult	New York, London, Harper & brothers	1922
	Oh, shoot! Confessions of an agitated sportsman - with illustrations from photographs taken by the author.	Fiction	Adult	New York, London, Harper & bros	1921
	Too Fat to Fight	Fiction	Adult	New York, London, Harper & brothers	1921
	The Winds of Chance	Fiction	Adult	New York : A.L. Burt Co.	1918
	Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories	Fiction	Adult	New York, Harper & Brothers	1917
	Rainbow's End	Fiction	Adult	New York : A.L. Burt Co.	1916
	Heart of the Sunset	Fiction	Adult	New York : A.L. Burt Co.	1915
	The Crimson Gardenia	Fiction	Adult	New York : A.L. Burt Co.	1915
	The auction block. A novel of New York life	Fiction	Adult	New York, Harper & Brothers	1914
	The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance	Fiction , Romance	Adult	New York and London, Harper & brothers	1913
	The Net: a Novel	Fiction	Adult	New York and London, Harper & brothers	1912
	The Ne'er-Do-Well	Fiction	Adult	New York : A. L. Burt	1911
	Going some : a romance of strenuous affection - "Suggested by the play by Rex Beach and Paul Armstrong."	Fiction	Adult	New York : A. L. Burt	1910
	The Silver Horde - Title refers to the Alaskan salmon run which provided more wealth to many than gold mining.	Historical Fiction	Adult	New York : A. L. Burt	1909
	The barrier; a novel	Fiction	Adult	New York, London, Harper & bros.	1908
	The Spoilers - based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. Became one of the best selling novels of 1906.	Fiction	Adult	New York, A.L. Burt	1908
	Pardners	Fiction	Adult	New York, McClure, Phillips & Co.	1905
	Other works: - Films have been made of his books; The Spoilers had the honor of being the first six-reel movie.

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "Big hairy stories about big hairy men" is how one critic described his work. Writing in the school of realism, his novels and stories were works of romantic, frontier adventure aimed at young men. Plots involved ordinary hard-working citizens forced to confront the forces of nature and corruption. Beach was the first American author to insert a clause about movie rights in his contracts, securing for himself a footnote in film history and a great deal of additional revenue. Fourteen of his novels and sixteen of his original scenarios were made into motion pictures. After making one fortune from novels and motion pictures, Beach went on to make another from flower and vegetable growing. He sold this farm to his employees and began raising cattle. Though he continued to write fiction, he also wrote about soil conservation and human and animal nutrition.

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Dubbed the "Victor Hugo of the North" Commited suicide two years after the death of his wife.

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