Founded in the early 1950s, Western Writers of America is a nonprofit organization of more than 600 members worldwide who write about the American West, contemporary and historical, fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, poems and songs, as well as editors, agents and publishers. Members include C.J. Box, Sandra Dallas, Jeff Guinn, Anne Hillerman, Craig Johnson, Jane Kirkpatrick, David Morrell and W.K. Stratton.