Comments on: Review: M. E. KNERR – Travis http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88 Devoted to mystery and detective fiction -- the books, the films, the authors, and those who read, watch, collect and make annotated lists of them. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:16:46 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: » Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV - Misc. Authors from Part 26. http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-86506 » Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV - Misc. Authors from Part 26. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:57:10 +0000 http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-86506 [...] of the author’s mystery fiction, see a review of his private eye novel Travis posted earlier here on the Mystery*File blog. A biographical reminiscence of his life by John F. Carr can be found in [...]

]]> By: Monty Melville http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-53078 Monty Melville Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:42:56 +0000 http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-53078 I was Mike's best friend since we were 12. We shared writing and joined a startup writers group that had H. Beam Piper in the group. I spent many a wee hours with mike discussing books including "Travis". Before it was written we were working on a biography of the main charcater and how he come to own this great sailboat. I was there when Mike got the call from the publisher telling him they wanted TRAVIS. Shortly after that he ran all the way to California where he banged out a lot of cheap little books that paid him 600.00dollars for the first one and 100.00 increases for each story until he reaches 1200.00. He wrote them fast and I was disappointed because he was a much better writer then the hack I was reading. I once commented to him about the lead characters always getting woman. I told Mike ,either he was very nieve or one lucky son of a ..... I'm afraid his best writings were never published. I have in my possession a partial manuscript of his western epic he was working on. a kind of, How the West Was Won, thing. I hounded him since 1976 to write historical stuff, which was his favorite. I loved his writing on a book called, Forlorn Hope. An American revolution story from a British soliders point of view. It was good writing. He chose instead to write for the quick cash and notriety. your take on the book Travis was right on. It was not the book he and I worked on. Monty I was Mike’s best friend since we were 12. We shared writing and joined a startup writers group that had H. Beam Piper in the group. I spent many a wee hours with mike discussing books including “Travis”. Before it was written we were working on a biography of the main charcater and how he come to own this great sailboat. I was there when Mike got the call from the publisher telling him they wanted TRAVIS. Shortly after that he ran all the way to California where he banged out a lot of cheap little books that paid him 600.00dollars for the first one and 100.00 increases for each story until he reaches 1200.00. He wrote them fast and I was disappointed because he was a much better writer then the hack I was reading. I once commented to him about the lead characters always getting woman. I told Mike ,either he was very nieve or one lucky son of a ….. I’m afraid his best writings were never published. I have in my possession a partial manuscript of his western epic he was working on. a kind of, How the West Was Won, thing. I hounded him since 1976 to write historical stuff, which was his favorite. I loved his writing on a book called, Forlorn Hope. An American revolution story from a British soliders point of view. It was good writing. He chose instead to write for the quick cash and notriety. your take on the book Travis was right on. It was not the book he and I worked on. Monty

]]> By: Steve http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-32659 Steve Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:56:03 +0000 http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-32659 I've thanked Dan for leaving the comment above. He's now seen the follow-up piece that John Carr did on his father, where the dates of when Mike Knerr was born and died were corrected. It was my fault for not leaving an update to Carr's piece at the end of this one. I'll do that right now. -- Steve I’ve thanked Dan for leaving the comment above. He’s now seen the follow-up piece that John Carr did on his father, where the dates of when Mike Knerr was born and died were corrected. It was my fault for not leaving an update to Carr’s piece at the end of this one. I’ll do that right now. — Steve

]]> By: Dan Knerr (son) http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-32515 Dan Knerr (son) Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:12:00 +0000 http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-32515 Yes Mike E Knerr was a friend of Piper's and yes he did write under Brent Hart. Also missing from your list of publications are two stories in Louis L'Amour Mag. As for the Fuzzy stories... somewhere there is a blue trunk with a lot of Piper's things...(wink) He was not born in 08 did not die in 84 as he was present at my wedding in 96. While the book Travis and several of the like were lacking was the fact he hated writing them, most before I was born in 64. But a lot of things we do for money they are not always the best product if your heart is not in it... Daniel W Knerr Yes Mike E Knerr was a friend of Piper’s and yes he did write under Brent Hart. Also missing from your list of publications are two stories in Louis L’Amour Mag. As for the Fuzzy stories… somewhere there is a blue trunk with a lot of Piper’s things…(wink)

He was not born in 08 did not die in 84 as he was present at my wedding in 96. While the book Travis and several of the like were lacking was the fact he hated writing them, most before I was born in 64. But a lot of things we do for money they are not always the best product if your heart is not in it…

Daniel W Knerr

]]> By: » Bill Pronzini on VALERIE SHORE and MICHAEL KNERR. http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-921 » Bill Pronzini on VALERIE SHORE and MICHAEL KNERR. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:37:46 +0000 http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=88#comment-921 [...]    Also noted your piece on Michael Knerr. I don’t have Travis, the book you reviewed, but do have and have read the Monarch, The Violent Lady. Pretty good adventure/mystery tale set mainly on a 49-foot yawl on a long Caribbean treasure cruise. [...] [...]    Also noted your piece on Michael Knerr. I don’t have Travis, the book you reviewed, but do have and have read the Monarch, The Violent Lady. Pretty good adventure/mystery tale set mainly on a 49-foot yawl on a long Caribbean treasure cruise. [...]

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