RIP Lou Carrigan

 

Spanish novelist Lou Carrigan died on July 29, 2024, in Barcelona, Spain three weeks after turning 90. He was born Antonio Vera Ramirez in Barcelona on July 2, 1934. He wrote some 1,100 novels under multiple aliases such as Angelo Antonioni, Crowley Farber, Lou Flanagan, Anthony Hamilton, Sol Harrison, Anthony Michaels, Anthony W. Rawer, Angela Windsor, Giselle but was best known for his westerns where he used the name Lou Carrigan. Three of his novels became Spahetti western films and he wrote the screenplay for a fourth. “Twenty Paces to Death” and “Stagecoach of the Condemned” both in 1970 and “Four Candles for My Colt” in 1971 were based on his novels. He wrote the screenplay for 1971’s “And the Crows will Dig Your Grave”.