The Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 84

Wolff, William Almon (1885-1933) (items) (chron.)

Born in Brooklyn; educated at New York University; contributor of fiction to magazines.

Wollheim, Donald A(llen) (1914-1990); used pseudonym Martin Pearson (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wollheim_donald_a

Wolson, Morton (1913-2003) (items) (chron.)

Living in New York. Author of many pulp detective stories in the 1940s as Peter Paige.

Woltman, William John (1905-1974); later known as Iain Waltmore (items) (chron.); name also given as William John Waltman.

Born Willem Johannes Woltman in Rotterdam, Netherlands; died in Croydon, Surrey; foreign language consultant and translator.

Wonderly, W(illiam) Carey (1890-1931) (items) (chron.)

Born in Baltimore, MD.

Wong, S. G. (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See www.sgwong.com

Woo, Xinglu (1937- ) (items) (chron.)

See prabook.com/web/xinglu.wu/222072

Wood, (Samuel) Andrew (1887-1966) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wood_samuel_andrew

Wood, Clement (1888-1950) (items) (chron.)

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; educated at University of Alabama and Yale Law School; lawyer, educator, poet and novelist; lived in N.Y. Husband of Gloria Goddard.

Wood, Edward (1926-1996) (items)

See fancyclopedia.org/Ed_Wood

Wood, Edwin Goodenow (1864-1934) (items) (chron.)

Brother of Theodore Snow Wood.

Wood, Jonathan (c1956- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/4tlv58/hi_reddit_im_jon_hollins_fantasy_author_and_fake

Wood, Kenneth P(rice) (1898-1945) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-kenneth-p-wood/145219213/

Wood, Stuart (fl. 1960s-1970s) (items) (chron.)

Perhaps Canadian writer Stuart Zachary Taylor Wood (1889-1966)

Woodbury, Herbert A(rthur) (1901-1980) (items) (chron.)

Harvard graduate. Worked as full time writer for over a decade, rest of life as teacher. Born and mostly lived in Iowa.

Woodfin, Henry (A.) (1927-1998) (items) (chron.)

Born in Buffalo, New York; music (jazz) critic there.

Woodford, Jack; pseudonym of Josiah Pitts Woolfolk (1894-1971) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Woodford

Woodhall, Edwin Thomas (1886-1941) (items) (chron.)

Educated at St. Georges Commercial School, Ramsgate; author and journalist.

Woodhouse, Martin (Charlton) (1932-2011) (items)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/woodhouse_martin

Wooding, James Bennett (1897-1954) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2023/05/james-bennett-wooding-1897-1954-first.html

Woodrow, Nancy Mann (Waddel) (1867-1935) (items) (chron.)

See oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1602726

Woods, Jonathan (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See www.southernnoir.com

Woods, Paula L. (1953- ) (items) (chron.)

Native of Los Angeles; has M.A. in public health from UCLA; with her husband owns and operates a book packaging and marketing company.

Woods, Stuart (Chevalier) (1938-2022) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Woods

Woodward, Ann (F.) (1926- ) (items) (chron.)

Student of Japanese history and language; living in Ann Arbor.

Woodward, Edward (Emberlin) (1882-1951) (items) (chron.)

Born in Kidderminster; living in Berkshire in the 1930s.

Woolfolk, Josiah Pitts (1894-1971); used pseudonym Jack Woodford (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Woodford

Woollcott, Alexander (Humphreys) (1887-1943) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott

Woolrich, Cornell; [i.e., Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich] (1903-1968) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich

Wordingham, James A(rthur) (1917-1997) (items) (chron.)

Born in London, England; died in Kent; journalist, then editor of The Norfolk Chronicle.

Workman, James (1912-2001) (items) (chron.)

Born James Robert Elliot Hill-Workman in Scotland; in Australia as James Workman as an actor by 1948.

Worley, William (Thomas) (1915-1988) (items) (chron.)

Born and died in California; a teacher at Lowell High School, San Francisco.

Wormser, Richard (Edward) (1908-1977); used pseudonym Nick Carter (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wormser_richard

Worth, Adam (1844-1902) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Worth

Wortham, Revis (Z.) (fl. 1980s-2010s) (items)

See reaviszwortham.com/about.html

Worts, George F(rank) (1892-1967) (items) (chron.)

Born in Toledo; radio operator turned freelance writer in Hawaii; screenwriter.

Wren, M. K.; pseudonym of Martha Kay Renfroe (1938-2016) (items)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wren_m_k

Wren, P(ercival) C(hristopher) (1875-1941) (items) (chron.)

Born in Deptford, London; birth registered as Percy Wren.

Wrenn, Charles L(ewis) (1880-1952) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Wren.html

Wright, A(lan) J. (c1951- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.lep.co.uk/news/crime-author-strikes-again-with-award-honour-1-8157321

Wright, Betty Ren; [i.e., Betty Ren Wright Frederiksen] (1927-2013) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Ren_Wright

Wright, David (John Murray) (1920-1994) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wright_(poet)

Wright, Edward (fl. 2000s-2010s) (items)

See www.edwardwrightbooks.com

Wright, Eric (1929-2015) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Wright_(writer)

Wright, Erica (fl. 2000s-2020s) (items) (chron.)

See ericawright.typepad.com

Wright, Gilbert (Munger) (1901-1966) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bell_Wright

Wright, Keith (1948- ) (items) (chron.)

Policeman in Nottingham C.I.D.

Wright, Nancy Means (1927- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.goodreads.com/author/show/280943.Nancy_Means_Wright

Wright, S(ydney) Fowler (1874-1965) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wright_s_fowler

Wright, Sewell Peaslee (1897-1970) (items) (chron.)

Author, journalist, advertising writer, radio operator. Born in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Wuorio, Eva-Lis (1918-1988) (items) (chron.)

See desturmobed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/eva-lis-wuorio.html

Wuornos, Aileen (Carol) (1956-2002) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

Wurlitzer, Rudolph (1937- ) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Wurlitzer

Wurthmann, Helen (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See www.elance.com/s/helenwurthmann

Wyckoff, (Albert) Capwell (1903-1953) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/09/capwell-wyckoff.html

Wykes, (Douglas) Alan (1914-1993) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wykes_alan

Wylde, Thomas (Clarke) (1946- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wylde_thomas

Wyles, Lilian (Mary Elizabeth) (1885-1975) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Wyles

Wylie, Philip (Gordon) (1902-1971) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wylie_philip

Wyn, A(aron) A(rthur) (1898-1967) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Wyn

Wyndham, [Captain] Horace (Cowley) (1873-1970) (items) (chron.)

Born in Oxford, England; educated in Edinburgh.

Wyndham, John; pseudonym of John Beynon Harris (1903-1969) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyndham

Wyville, A(insworth) W. (1896-1982) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/aw-wyville.html

Yadon, Bayard (Earl) (1896-1933) (items) (chron.)

Born 10 Jan 1896 in Powder Springs, Tennessee; served with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas during WWI, studied law, and was later admitted to the bar; farmer, newspaper reporter for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, news editor for the Middlesboro Daily News; died of a sinus infection 25 Sep 1933.

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn (1942- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yarbro_chelsea_quinn

Yarnell, Duane (Alvin) (1914-1996) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-wichita-beacon-duane-yarnell-writer/135532663/

Yates, Alan Geoffrey (1923-1985) (items) (chron.)

Earliest books were published as by Peter Carter-Brown, then as by Peter Carter Brown, then as by Carter Brown.