The Daily Mail, UK, website recently posted a long article about Raymond Chandler’s life and how it influenced his work. A new biography of him has been published, and the article seems to be a good summary. You can read the article here. Link to the book below
Category: Authors
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur – Professor, pulp writer
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur was born on September 18, 1888 in Franklin, Massachusetts. He was the son of Clarence Arthur Brodeur and Mary Cornelia (Latta) Brodeur. His father was then the principal of the State Normal School, Westfield, Massachusetts and had graduated from Harvard. Arthur grew up in Westfield and went to Harvard,… Continue reading Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur – Professor, pulp writer
Ernest Bramah – Humorist, Detective fiction writer
[In which your slow-witted servant recommends to your exaltedness’ attentions the boundless wisdom, lofty morals and incomparable diversions to be found in the stories of the itinerant story-teller Kai-Lung as related by the venerable hermit Ernest Bramah.] Ernest Bramah set his Kai Lung stories in a China that never was, where people spoke in an… Continue reading Ernest Bramah – Humorist, Detective fiction writer
Bill Adams – sailor, short story writer, poet
Bertram Martin (“Bill”) Adams is another forgotten writer who wrote for Adventure. He was a sailor on the clippers (wind powered ships), and retired from the sea when his body could not take the strain of further voyaging. Contemporary critics raved over his work, comparing him to Joseph Conrad, and he was a favorite of… Continue reading Bill Adams – sailor, short story writer, poet
W.C. Tuttle – Western, short story and movie writer, humorist and detective fiction author
[W.C. Tuttle, like B.M. Bower, Walt Coburn and Dan Cushman, was an authentic westerner from Montana who became a writer. He wrote westerns, naturally, but not the usual sheriff-rides-into-town-and-cleans-it-up stuff. Rather, he wrote humorous stories and detective fiction, creating characters who were always looking to find what was over the next hill, and would never… Continue reading W.C. Tuttle – Western, short story and movie writer, humorist and detective fiction author
J. Allan Dunn – Pulp author, Novelist, Explorer, Sailor
[J. Allan Dunn was a prolific pulp writer, playwright, poet, artist, explorer and movie writer, writing over a thousand stories from 1914 to 1941 of which many were published in book form and serialized in newspapers after their magazine publication. He specialized in South Seas and pirate stories, but wrote detective stories, science fiction and… Continue reading J. Allan Dunn – Pulp author, Novelist, Explorer, Sailor
James Francis Dwyer – biography
[James Francis Dwyer’s biography reads like a story from the pages of the pulps. He was a mailman, a reformed convict and a tram conductor before he met with success as a writer. He wrote adventure stories for the pulps – stories which are as exciting today as they were when they were written. One… Continue reading James Francis Dwyer – biography
Georges Surdez – Writer of French Foreign Legion stories
[Georges Surdez was a writer of French Foreign Legion short stories, written from his personal knowledge of men who had served in it. He was a regular contributor to Adventure from 1922 to 1948, with over a hundred stories appearing in Adventure, and had stories published every year during that period, an amazing record. He… Continue reading Georges Surdez – Writer of French Foreign Legion stories
William Hazlett Upson – creator of Alexander Botts
[This isn’t, strictly speaking, an article about a pulp author, or even an adventure author. But I enjoyed his tales of Alexander Botts. He was one of the leading humor writers for the Saturday Evening Post and there isn’t even a Wikipedia article on him; this post is my attempt to keep his stories from… Continue reading William Hazlett Upson – creator of Alexander Botts
Photo feature – Kathrene Pinkerton in the wilderness
These pictures are from an article by Kathrene Pinkerton for Outing magazine, published in 1913. This was when she and her husband, Robert, were living in the cottage near Akitokan. Photos after the jump. Kathrene Pinkerton getting into her canoe Kathrene Pinkerton afoot in the winter Kathrene Pinkerton in the ideal position for rowing in… Continue reading Photo feature – Kathrene Pinkerton in the wilderness