Sidney Herschel Small c. 1922 Sidney Herschel Small was a noted writer of stories set in Japan and China. Writing at a time when the Yellow Peril stories were a staple of the pulps, he created Chinese and Japanese characters that were good, bad and somewhere in between: in short, just like most people.… Continue reading Sidney Herschel Small – Author, Traveller
Category: Authors
Charles B. Stilson – Author, Journalist
[Obituary appeared in the Rochester Democrat Chronicle, October 23, 1932] C. B. STILSON, NOVELIST AND EDITOR, DIES Devoted Life to Work of Newspapers and to Literature Charles B. Stilson, author Charles Billings Stilson, in point of service one of the oldest newspaper men in Rochester and a fiction writer whose work… Continue reading Charles B. Stilson – Author, Journalist
Interview with Gordon D. Shirreffs, Western writer
Gordon D. Shirreffs: An Interview with a Western Writer Carole Shirreffs Cox My father is Gordon D. Shirreffs. He has written 79 novels of the West as well as hundreds of short stories, pulps, and TV and movie scripts since he first began to sell what he wrote in the 1940s. He visited me in… Continue reading Interview with Gordon D. Shirreffs, Western writer
Leonard H. Nason – Soldier, Writer
Leonard H. Nason c. 1921 (Courtesy the Digital Collections of the Norwich University Archives) Allan Leonard Hastings Nason (his full birth name) was an untamed spirit, and it shows in his writing. He wrote about war and soldiers, and his characters are not respectful of authority. Typically, they are trying to find a way… Continue reading Leonard H. Nason – Soldier, Writer
Profile of Bob Davis, All-Story and Munsey’s magazine editor, from 1920
This article originally appeared in Advertising and Selling, January 24, 1920. The Men and Women Who Make Our Mediums “BOB DAVIS OF MUNSEY’S” One of a Series of Informal Visits With the Leading American Editors and Publishers With the Object of Interpreting What They Mean to Advertisers. By WILLIAM C. LENGEL I HAVEN’T… Continue reading Profile of Bob Davis, All-Story and Munsey’s magazine editor, from 1920
T.T. Flynn – Sailor, Railroadman, Author
Pulp Magazine Covers with stories from T.T. Flynn Theodore Thomas Flynn (better known as T.T. Flynn, western and detective fiction author) is nowadays remembered for his book, The Man from Laramie, which was made into a successful movie. He also wrote a series of stories about Mr. Maddox, a bookie detective, in Dime Detective; another… Continue reading T.T. Flynn – Sailor, Railroadman, Author
Gordon Ray Young – Author, Cowboy – Autobiography in Saturday Evening Post, March 7, 1942
Gordon Young was one of the top writers for Adventure magazine. Here’s an auto-biographical short article from him on that originally appeared in the March 7, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Gordon Ray Young GORDON RAY YOUNG, having written his first Post serial with Tall in the Saddle, goes back over his own… Continue reading Gordon Ray Young – Author, Cowboy – Autobiography in Saturday Evening Post, March 7, 1942
A.M. Chisholm – Author, Lawyer, Judge, Coroner
A.M. Chisholm was one of the mainstays of the Popular Magazine. As far as I know, he did not create any series characters, but my knowledge in this area is limited as I don’t collect or read Popular Magazine. I recently read his book, Fur Pirates, which was recently reprinted as Pirates of the Pines… Continue reading A.M. Chisholm – Author, Lawyer, Judge, Coroner
F. R. Buckley – Swashbuckling author
Frederick Robert Buckley aka F.R. Buckley (1896-1976), is probably best known for his series of stories in Adventure, about Luigi Caradosso, an Italian soldier of fortune in the middle ages. The Caradosso stories are told, tongue firmly in cheek, in the form of letters from a man in his retirement, offering advice to his master’s… Continue reading F. R. Buckley – Swashbuckling author
S.B.H. Hurst – Sailor, Traveller and Writer
[S. B. H. Hurst wrote stories set in India and the Orient as well as sea-stories. He wrote from personal experience as a sailor. His stories appeared in Adventure, Short Stories, Sea Stories Magazine as well as slicks like Collier’s.] Samuel Bertram Haworth Hurst was born in January, 1876 in Barton upon Irwell, near Manchester.… Continue reading S.B.H. Hurst – Sailor, Traveller and Writer