My 1st thought was does the header refer to a western writer or a Western writer. The phrase can mean either one. Either someone who is from a western country who is a writer or someone who writes Westerns. Both meanings are valid. A western writer does his/her writing from a state of freedom in that they aren't in danger of being arrested for writing something the state objects to and Western writers write about people who created the modern world we live in and who lived in a time of greater self-determination than we live in today.
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