Editing Lester Dent (section)

==Appearances in fiction==
Dent is a featured character in the [[Paul Malmont]] novel ''[[The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril]]'', which was published by [[Simon & Schuster]] in 2006, and in the sequel ''[[The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown]]'' also [[Simon & Schuster]] in 2011. The novels describe friendship and rivalry among pulp writers of the 1930s, and also include [[Walter B. Gibson|Walter Gibson]], creator of [[The Shadow]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Dirda |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Dirda |date=July 20, 2011 |title=Books: 'The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown,' by Paul Malmont |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/books-the-astounding-the-amazing-and-the-unknown-by-paul-malmont/2011/07/12/gIQAI4elQI_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=July 20, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405151042/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/books-the-astounding-the-amazing-and-the-unknown-by-paul-malmont/2011/07/12/gIQAI4elQI_story.html |archive-date=April 5, 2014}}</ref>

Dent also appears in [[Craig McDonald]]'s Hector Lassiter novel ''[[The Running Kind]]'' (2014), which touches on Dent's passion for ham radio and aerial photography enterprises, {{Circa|1950}}.

A character named Dexter Lent, based on Lester Dent, appears in The Curse of the Crimson Rooster by Mark O. Lambert (2025).  The book is loosely based on the dedication of the Lester Dent Memorial Bridge in Dent's hometown, La Plata, Missouri.