The General Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 122

Smyth, [Dame] Ethel (Mary) (1858-1944) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth

Snaith, J(ohn) C(ollis) (1876-1936) (items) (chron.)

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

Snapp, Frank (1876-1927) (items) (chron.)

See indianaillustrators.blogspot.com/2013/11/frank-snapp-1876-1927.html

Sneddon, Robert W(illiam) (1880-1944) (items) (chron.)

See pseudopod.org/people/robert-w-sneddon

Snell, Edmund (1889-1972) (items) (chron.)

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

Snevily, Henry Mansfield (1887-1954) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/memorial/106890479/henry-m-snevily

Snider, Roy (fl. 1920s) (items) (chron.)

Born in Toronto, Canada.

Snow, Charles H(orace) (1877-1967) (items) (chron.)

Born in Lower Lake, California; extremely prolific writer of westerns, with 465 novels to his credit, an even more impressive achievement when one learns that he was totally blind since 1914. Died in Napa, California.

Snow, Walter (1905-1973) (items) (chron.)

Born in Connecticut; New York City newspaperman, short story writer.

Soare, William F(ulton) (1896-1940) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Soare.html

Sobol, Donald J. (1924-2012) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Sobol

Sobol, Louis (1896-1986) (items) (chron.)

See www.nytimes.com/1986/02/10/obituaries/louis-sobol-90-dies-broadway-columnist.html

Söderberg, Hjalmar (Emil Frederik) (1869-1941) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Söderberg

Soderberg, Yngve Edward (1896-1971) (items) (chron.)

Born in Chicago, Illinois; died in Mystic, Connecticut (?).

Soglow, Otto (1900-1975) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Soglow

Sōkan, Yamazaki; pseudonym of Shina Norishige (1465-1553) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamazaki_Sōkan

Sokolow, Norman H(askell) (fl. 1940s) (items) (chron.)

Also published a book of poetry. Probably from California.

Soldan, William R. (fl. 2010s-2020s) (items) (chron.)

See www.emptymirrorbooks.com/author/williamrsoldan

Sologub, Fyodor; pseudonym of Fëdor Kuzmich Teternikov (1863-1927) (items) (chron.)

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

Solomon, David R(osenbaum) (1893-1951) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2023/04/david-r-solomon-1893-1951-another-story.html

Solomons, Jack; [i.e., Israel Jacob Solomons] (1900-1979) (items)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Solomons

Solomons, Theodore Seixas (fl. 1910s-1930s) (items) (chron.)

Traveller and writer. Born in San Francisco, California.

Solon, S. L. (fl. 1940s-1960s) (items) (chron.)

Probably pseudonymous.

Soltesz, Frank (fl. 1950s-1960s) (items) (chron.)

Born in Derry, Pennsylvania; died in Sherman, Connecticut (?).

Somersalo, M(arie) E. (fl. 1960s) (items)

Wife of Lawrence Hammond.

Somerville, Charles (Cecil Lee D’Montral) (1876-1931) (items) (chron.)

Born in New Orleans of Creole descent; magazine writer, New York City reporter.

Somerville, E(dith Anna) Œ(none) (1858-1949) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Anna_Somerville

Somerville, Harold E(rnest) (1885-1935) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2025/08/harold-e-somerville-1885-1935.html

Somerville, William (1675-1742) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Somervile

Sommer, J. G. (fl. 1910s) (items) (chron.)

New York City area artist.

Sonnenschein, Edward (fl. 1940s) (items) (chron.)

Collector of Oriental art. Not to be confused with Edward Adolf Sonnenschein (1851-1929).

Sonnichsen, Albert (1878-1931) (items) (chron.)

Journalist, short story writer. Born in San Francisco, California; died in Willimantic, Connecticut.

Sontheimer, Morton (1906-1975) (items) (chron.)

See www.nytimes.com/1982/03/24/obituaries/morton-sontheimer.html

Sorabji, Cornelia (1866-1954) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Sorabji

Sorenson, Edward S(ylvester) (1869-1939) (items) (chron.)

Born in Dyraaba, New South Wales; began working at age 9 while intermittently in school; apprenticed to a carpenter at age 14; thereafter he was a gold prospector, worked at sheep stations, became a publican, and settled in Sydney to become a writer; as such he was prolific, contributing to periodicals and writing stories and verse; known for expert descriptions of wildlife.

Sorg, Arley (fl. 2010s-2020s) (items) (chron.)

See arleysorg.com

Sorrell, Alan (Ernest) (1904-1974) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sorrell

Sothern, Edward Hugh (1859-1933) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Sothern

Soto, Ada Maria (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See blog.adamariasoto.com

Souster, Raymond (Holmes) (1921-2012) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Souster

Soutar, (Edward) Andrew (1879-1941) (items) (chron.)

Born Edward Andrew Stagg in Wiltshire; married Elspeth Soutar Swinton as Stagg in 1911; but then adopted the last name Soutar; death in Cornwall registered as Edward Andrew Soutar.

South, Ira (1893-1918) (items) (chron.)

Texas poet.

South, Marshal (1889-1948) (items) (chron.)

Born Roy Bennett Richards in Gelenelg, near Adelaide, Australia; came to the U.S. in 1908 with his mother and brother, settling in Oceanside, California; began using Marshal South for his writings in 1912 and it apparently became his adopted/legal name, under which his marriages, census records and WWII draft registration are listed. (His second wife Tanya is listed in social security death records as Tanya South and his first son as Marshal L. South Jr.) Author of 8 novels (none published in the U.S.), over 50 poems, short stories and essays and many Desert Magazine articles; lived latterly in a self-constructed house on “Ghost Mountain” in the California desert.

Southern, Terry (1924-1995) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Southern

Southey, Robert (1774-1843) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Southey

Southwell, Robert (c1561-1595) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Southwell_(priest)

Southworth, [Col.] Richard (fl. 1960s) (items) (chron.)

Probably pseudonymous.

Souvestre, Emile (1806-1854) (items) (chron.)

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

Sowden, Lewis (1903-1974) (items) (chron.)

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

Spahr, Jürg (1925-2002) (items) (chron.)

See de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürg_Spahr

Spalding, [Rev.] Samuel C(harles) (1878-1962) (items) (chron.)

Born in Leavenworth, Kansas; educated at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania; founder of Chicago publishing company in 1921.

Spalding, Susan Marr (1841-1908) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Susan_Marr_Spalding

Spanfeller, Jim; [i.e., James John Spanfeller] (1930-2014) (items) (chron.)

See https://www.joeciardiello.com/?article=15006§ion=news

Spanier, Muriel (1921-2017) (items) (chron.)

See https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/muriel-marcuvitz-obituary?id=20448931

Sparkes, Boyden (1890-1954) (items) (chron.)

Editor and author. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio; died in Wilson, North Carolina.

Sparkia, Roy (Bernard) (1914-1992) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/memorial/82093288/roy-b-sparkia

Sparks, David R. (1897-1968) (items) (chron.)

Writer and manufacturer. Born in Alton, Illinois; died in Whitefield, New Hampshire.

Sparrow, Gerald (1903-1988) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Sparrow

Speare, Dorothy (1898-1951) (items) (chron.)

See nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv91101

Spearman, Frank H(amilton) (1859-1937) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_H._Spearman

Spears, John R(andolph) (1850-1936) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Randolph_Spears

Spears, Raymond S(miley) (1876-1950) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_S._Spears

Speed, Lancelot (1860-1931) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Speed

Speer, (Berthold Konrad Hermann) Albert (1905-1981) (items)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer

Speight, T(homas) W(ilkinson) (1830-1915) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/two-victorian-british-authors.html

Spence, (John) Hartzell (1908-2001) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartzell_Spence

Spencer, Cornelia; pseudonym of Grace Sydenstricker Yaukey (1899-1994) (items) (chron.)

See nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv07534