Luke Short (born Frederick Dilley Glidden November 19, 1908 – August 18, 1975) was a popular Western writer.
Born in Kewanee, Illinois, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two and a half years and then transferred to the University of Missouri at Columbia to study journalism.
His novel, The Whip, or Doom Cliff, was serialized in both Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post.
The Saturday Evening Post bought the rights to the remaining unpublished installment and published it on February 9, 1957.
[3] Short continued to write novels, despite increasing trouble with his vision, until his death in 1975.