John Henry Reese (18 December 1910 – 15 August 1981) was an American author, mainly of Western and Crime Fiction.
He won the prestigious[1] 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for his first children's book, Big Mutt.
My father was a horse breaker and former cavalryman; my mother was the daughter of a frontier blacksmith and woodworker.
His first Western novel was Signal Guns At Sunup using the pseudonym John Jo Carpenter.
[citation needed] He graduated to writing for slick and glossy magazines and sold stories to The Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, Collier's, and Playboy.
[5] Big Mutt, Reese's first children's book, was about a sheep dog in the badlands of North Dakota.