A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (born 1901)

A. B. Guthrie Jr.

American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian

Alfred Bertram "Bud" Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. His novel The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for Shane (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award.