Frederick Benjamin "Fred" Gipson was an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was born on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country, the son of Beck Gipson and Emma Deishler.

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MASON, Tex., Aug. 14 (AP) —Fred Gipson, the author of “Hound‐Dog Man,” “Old Yeller” and other ‐adventure stories written for both children and adults, died this morning at his ranch home near here. He was 65 years old.

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He also wrote for the University's student paper, The Daily Texan. Gipson married Tommie Eloise Wynn in 1940 with whom he had two children; they were divorced in 1964.