Gordon Donald Shirreffs (January 15, 1914 – February 9, 1996) was an American author, known mostly for writing Western and juvenile (young adult) novels.
Two of his novels, Judas Gun and Rio Bravo, were made into movies (Vivo per la tua Morte, 1968 Italy, A Long Ride from Hell, in the U.S.A., Oregon Passage (1957 film), respectively).
When his National Guard unit was activated in 1940 Shirreffs served in World War II where he was stationed in Alaska's Aleutian Islands as part of the Pacific Theater.
They had two children, a daughter Carole (born 1943) and a son Brian (1946-2015), who died June 22, 2015, Long Beach, CA.
In keeping with his Scottish roots, he was a member of one or more bagpipe bands in Burbank and San Fernando, CA.