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Ward Hawkins
Ward Hawkins (December 29, 1912 - December 22, 1990) was a well-known Canadian-born screenwriter and author during the 1940s through to the 1980s.
From the mid-1940s, together wit...view moreWard Hawkins (December 29, 1912 - December 22, 1990) was a well-known Canadian-born screenwriter and author during the 1940s through to the 1980s.
From the mid-1940s, together with his brother John Hawkins (1910-1978), he began writing a large number of crime and science fiction stories for specialist magazines such as Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and The Saint Magazine, as well as magazines such as Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. The brothers were ranked among the ten most published authors in magazines in 1950. They also wrote a number of novels together, including Broken River (1944), Pilebuck (1943), Devil on His Trail (1944), A Girl, a Man, and a River, a mystery story originally written as a seven part serial in the Saturday Evening Post, published in issues from January 21, 1956, until March 3, 1956, and released in hardback format in 1956; and Floods of Fear (1956), a thriller which was filmed in 1959 starring Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack and Joan Crawford.
In the 1960s, the Hawkins brothers began writing for various television series, most notably as staff writers for Bonanza, and in the 1970s for Little House on the Prairie, where Ward was story editor and also contributed many teleplays for the program, whilst John was a producer and writer.
In the 1980s, Ward Hawkins published a number of science fiction books, including: The Damnation of John Doyle Lee (1982); Sword of Fire (1985); Red Flame Burning, (1985); Blaze of Wrath, (1986); and Torch of Fear, (1987).
He died in Los Angeles, California, in 1990, aged 77.view less