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Lester Dent

Lester Dent, American journalist and author (died 1959)

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Born
October 12, 1904
Died
March 11, 1959
Zodiac sign
Libra
Birth year
1904

About Lester Dent

Lester Dent was an American pulp-fiction writer, best known as the creator and main writer of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage. The 159 Doc Savage novels that Dent wrote over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson. Since his death, Lester Dent has lived on in reprints and new stories discovered and marketed by his literary agent, Will Murray. The first novel, The Man of Bronze, used the name Kenneth Roberts, but this was changed after it was discovered that there was another writer named Kenneth Roberts.

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The world when Lester Dent was born

Lester Dent was born in 1904. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1904

  • Best-selling book"The Crossing" – Winston Churchill

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst Olympic Games in the Americas (St. Louis)
  • Top headlineRusso-Japanese War begins
  • Technology milestoneNew York subway opens
  • World population~1.64B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population81.8M

1904 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Lester Dent's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19042026
Population81.8M341 million

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