Keith William Everson (8 April 1929 – 14 April 1996) was an English-American archivist, author, critic, educator, collector, and film historian. He also discovered several lost films. Everson’s given first names were Keith William, but he reversed them so that “William K.” would mimic the name of Hollywood director William K. Howard, whom he admired.
Books in order of publication:
Classics of the Silent Screen (1959) – attributed to Joe Franklin but actually written by Everson
The Western: From Silents to Cinerama (1962) with George N. Fenin; later updated and retitled The Western: From Silents to the Seventies (1973)
The American Movie (1963)
The Bad Guys: A Pictorial History of the Movie Villain (1964)
The Films of Laurel and Hardy (1967)
The Art of W. C. Fields (1967)
A Pictorial History of the Western Film (1969)
Days of Thrills and Adventure: An Affectionate Pictorial History of the Movie Serial (foreword, 1970) by Alan G. Barbour
The Films of Hal Roach (1971)
The Detective in Film (1972)
Classics of the Horror Film (1974)
Claudette Colbert (1976)
American Silent Film (1978)
Love in the Film: Screen Romance from the Silent Days to the Present (1979)
The Further Perils of Dracula (foreword, 1979) by Jeanne Youngson
More Classics of the Horror Film (1986)
The Hollywood Western (1992)
Hollywood Bedlam: Classic Screwball Comedies (1994)
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