The General Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes

Woodworth, Douglas H. (1894?-1940) (stories)

Telegraph operator, died in Eau Claire, WI.

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Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia (née Stephen) (1882-1941) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

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Woollam, Wilfred (Beet) (1856-1927) (stories)

See www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1698

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Woollcott, Alexander (Humphreys) (1887-1943) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott

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Woolrich, Cornell [i.e., Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich] (1903-1968) (stories) (assoc.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich

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Woolston, Florence (née Guy) (1881-1951) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Guy_Woolston_Seabury

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Wooton, Edwin (Littler) (1855-1933) (stories)

A journalist.

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Worcester, Dean C(onant) (1866-1924) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Conant_Worcester

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Wordsworth, Dorothy (Mae Ann) (1771-1855) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Wordsworth

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Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

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Wormeley, Katherine Prescott (1830-1908) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Prescott_Wormeley

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Wormser, Richard (Edward) (1908-1977) (stories) (assoc.)

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

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Worsley, T(homas) C(uthbert) (1907-1977) (stories)

Teacher, writer, and theatre and television critic.

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Worts, George F(rank) (1892-1967) (stories) (assoc.)

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

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Wren, P(ercival) C(hristopher) (1875-1941) (stories)

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

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Wrenn, Charles L(ewis) (1880-1952) (art)

See pulpartists.com/Wren.html

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Wright, Betty Ren [i.e., Betty Ren Wright Frederiksen] (1927-2013) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Ren_Wright

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Wright, Blanche Fisher (1887-1938) (art)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Fisher_Wright

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Wright, Charles L. (fl. 1910s) (art)

Born in Boston, Massachusetts. Not to be confused with artist Charles H. Wright (1870-1939).

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Wright, David (John Murray) (1920-1994) (stories)

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

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Wright, Farnsworth (1888-1940) (stories)

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

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Wright, George (Hand) (1872-1951) (art)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hand_Wright

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Wright, Gilbert (Munger) (1901-1966) (stories) (assoc.)

Son of author Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944).

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Wright, Nancy Means (1927- ) (stories)

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

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Wright, S(ydney) Fowler (1874-1965) (stories)

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

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Wright, Sewell Peaslee (1897-1970) (stories)

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

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Wright, Xena (Leslie) (1896-1940) (art)

See pulpartists.com/Wright.html

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Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Tingfang

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Wu, Sam (fl. 1950s-1960s) (stories) (art)

Has also done a book on nude photography.

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Wurdemann, Audrey (1911-1960) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Wurdemann

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Wyckoff, Joseph (1882-1977) (art)

See www.askart.com/artist/joseph_wyckoff/10059913/joseph_wyckoff.aspx

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Wycombe, Robert; pseudonym (fl. 1930s) (stories)

for a Fleet Street reporter.

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Wykes, (Douglas) Alan (1914- ) (stories)

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

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Wyles, Walter (1925-2017) (art)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/walter-wyles-1925-2017.html

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Wylie, Denis B(owmaker) (1908-1967) (stories)

Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; died in Leeds, England.

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Wylie, Dick (fl. 1950s-1960s) (stories)

Probably a pseudonym.

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Wylie, I(da) A(lexa) R(oss) (1885-1959) (stories)

Born in Melbourne, Australia; a film writer, novelist, magazine writer and poet; lived in England, Germany, Hollywood, and finally New Jersey, where she died (in Princeton).

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Wylie, Jeanne E. [i.e., Jeanne E. Wylie Sproull] (1917-2005) (stories)

See www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18464772

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Wylie, Philip (Gordon) (1902-1971) (stories) (assoc.)

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

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Wyllarde, Dolf; pseudonym of Dorothy Margarette Selby Lowndes (1871-1950) (stories)

See jot101.com/2015/06/dolf-wyllarde-crazy-name-crazy-gal

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Wyn, A(aron) A(rthur) [born Aaron Weinstein] (1898-1967) (stories)

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

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Wyndham, [Captain] Horace (Cowley) (1873-1970) (stories)

Born in Oxford, England; educated in Edinburgh.

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Wyndham, John; pseudonym of John Beynon Harris (1903-1969) (stories) (assoc.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyndham

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Wynne, Stella Frances [i.e., Estella Frences Wynne] (1885-1966) (stories)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/08/stella-wynne-1886-1966.html

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Wyse, Lois (1926-2007) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Wyse

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Yamata, Kikou (1897-1975) (stories)

See sites.google.com/site/kikouyamata/anglais

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Yang Kuei-Fei (719-756) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Guifei

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Yang, Nu (fl. 2010s) (stories)

See nuyangwriter.wordpress.com

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Yarmolinsky, Avrahm (1890-1975) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrahm_Yarmolinsky

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Yarmon, Morton (1916-2005) (stories)

See www.nytimes.com/2005/08/06/nyregion/06yarmon.html?_r=0

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Yarnell, Duane (Alvin) (1914-1996) (stories)

Has also done a biography and a mystery novel.

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Yates, Alan Geoffrey (1923-1985) (stories)

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

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Yates, Dornford; pseudonym of Cecil William Mercer (1885-1960) (stories) (assoc.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornford_Yates

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Yates, Edmund (Hodgson) (1831-1894) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Yates

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Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats

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Yeats-Brown, [Major] F(rancis Charles Claypon) (1886-1944) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown

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Yellin, Linda [born Melinda Cheryl Jacobson] (fl. 1980s-1990s) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Yellin

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Yeoman, A. X. (fl. 1920s) (stories)

Probably a pseudonym.

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Yerkow, Charles (1912- ) (stories)

Has done books on judo, bicycling and motorcycing. Born in New York City.

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Yevtushenko, Yevgeny [born Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus] (1932-2017) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Yevtushenko

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Yohn, Fred(erick) C(offay) (1875-1933) (art)

See www.in.gov/library/files/S0684_Yohn_Fred_C_Papers.pdf

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Yonge, Roy (1910-?) (stories)

Writer. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand; in United States since 1919.

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Yore, Clem(ent) (1875-1936) (stories)

Born in St. Louis, Missouri; educated at Washington University Law School; contributor of fiction to numerous magazines; died in Estes Park, Colorado; variously a Texas Ranger, cowpuncher, stage driver, gold prospector, lawyer, journalist, soldier in Spanish-American War, and poet; author of more than 600 short stories and 20 novels; died in Estes Park, Colorado.

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Youd, C(hristopher) S(amuel) [working name of Sam Youd] (1922-2012) (stories)

Note: His birth name, given thus, was expanded in many places to Samuel, and he adopted Christopher as his first name when confirmed into the Church of England, but neither change was ever made official.

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Young, Andrew John (1885-1971) (stories)

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

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Young, Bob (fl. 1940s-1960s) (stories)

Perhaps writer Robert Franklin Young (1915-1986)

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Young, E(dward) Hilton (, 1st Baron Kennet) (1879-1960) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Young,_1st_Baron_Kennet

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Young, Edgar (1885-?) (stories)

Writer, travelled through Central America. Not to be confused with the general solicitor for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad (1883?-1941).

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Young, Edward (1683-1765) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Young

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Young, Eric Brett (1892-1931) (stories)

Brother of Francis Brett Young.

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Young, Ernest A(von) (1858-1936) (stories)

Born in Templeton, Massachusetts; died in Gardner, Massachusetts.

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Young, Francis Brett (1884-1954) (stories)

Brother of Eric Brett Young.

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Young, Gordon (Raymond) (1886-1948) (stories) (assoc.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/gordon-ray-young-author-cowboy.html

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Young, John Richard (fl. 1940s-1950s) (stories) (assoc.)

Author of books for young readers. Born in Wisconsin.

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Young, Julia (Evelyn) Ditto (1857-1915) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Evelyn_Ditto_Young

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Young, Rida Johnson (1875-1926) (stories) (assoc.)

Author and playwright. Born in Baltimore; died in Stamford, Conn.

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Young, Waldemar (1878-1938) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Young

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Yuan Mei (1716-1797) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Mei

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Yuan, Changming (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories)

See modernpoet.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=changmingyuan

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Yudkoff, Alvin (Stephen) (1923-2009) (stories) (assoc.)

Born and living in New York City in 1950s; radio and TV writer.

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Yulsman, Jerry (1924-1999) (art)

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

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Zagat, Arthur Leo (1895-1949) (stories)

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

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Zarokilli, Nicholas P. (fl. 1910s) (art)

Also illustrated a book in 1914.

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Zetterström, Hasse [i.e., Hans Harald Zetterström] (1877-1946) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse_Zetterstr%C3%B6m

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Zhang Heng [78-139] (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Heng

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Zilahy, Lajos (1891-1974) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Zilahy

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Zimmer, Paul Edwin (1943-1997) (stories)

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

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Zimmerman, Fred (fl. 1930s-1950s) (stories)

Probably a pseudonym.

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Zimmerman, John (Gerald) (1927-2002) (art)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Zimmerman

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Zinberg, Leonard S(amuel) (1911-1968) (stories)

Author of mystery novels under the pseudonym of “Ed Lacy.” He died in New York City.

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Zirm, Rudolph W(ilhelm) (1894-1952) (art)

See pulpartists.com/Zirm.html

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Zitkala-Sä; pseudonym of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitkala-Sa

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Živković, Zoran (1948- ) (stories)

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

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Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild (1849-1925) (stories)

Author and artist. Born in Charleston, South Carolina; died in New York City.

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Zogović, Radovan (1907-1986) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovan_Zogovi%C4%87

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Zola, Émile (Édouard Charles Antoine) (1840-1902) (stories)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Zola

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