Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American writer. He is well known for composing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney movie. Gipson started life on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country, the son of Beck Gipson and the former Emma Deishler. After working at a variety of farming and ranching jobs, he enrolled in 1933 at the High school of Texas at Austin. There he created for the Daily Texan and The Ranger, but he left colledge before graduating to become a newspaper journalist.
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