The General Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 112

Smith, Sydney “Bill” (1912-2002) (items) (chron.)

See www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383847/Sydney-Bill-Smith.html

Smith, (James) Thorne (Jr.) (1892-1934) (items) (chron.)

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

Smith, Wallace (1888-1937) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Smith_(illustrator)

Smith, Walton (fl. 1950s-1970s) (items) (chron.)

Lived in Closter, New Jersey; no additional information, but not to be confused with Rear Admiral Walton Wiley Smith (1896?-1966).

Smith, Walton Hall (1898-1955) (items) (chron.)

Advertising writer; also did a book on alcohol. Born in Kansas City, Missouri.

Smith, Winchell (1871-1933) (items) (chron.)

Born in Hartford, Connecticut; actor and dramatist.

Smith, W(illia)m E(rnest) (1892-1969) (items) (chron.)

Educator and author; born in Licking, Missouri and died in Oxford, Ohio.

Smith, Wyman Sidney (fl. 1920s-1930s) (items) (chron.)

Wisconsin writer.

Smullen, Ivor (c1928-2006) (items) (chron.)

See www.pressgazette.co.uk/ivor-smullen

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

See 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 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 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Soglow

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

See 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, 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Anna_Somerville

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

See 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

Soper, Eloise Liddon (1897-?) (items) (chron.)

Born in Gordon, Alabama, and graduated from Huntingdon College; lived in New York.

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

See 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sorrell

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

See 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 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.

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

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Southey

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

See 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

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 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_H._Spearman

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

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Randolph_Spears

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

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