The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 14

Horton, Robert J. (1885-1934) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/robert-j-horton-western-author.html

Hosken, William Henry Martin (1874-1963); used pseudonym Wyndham Martyn (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.com/2007/07/wyndham-martyn-biographical-notes.html

Hoskins, Gayle Porter (1887-1962) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Hoskins.html

Hosmer, Paul (1887-1962) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/05/paul-hosmer-humorist-of-lumber-camps.html

Hough, Clyde B(ird) (1889-1975) (items) (chron.)

Born in Illinois. Was (illegally) arrested on 5-June-1917, 10 days before the Espionage Act was passed on the 15th. He had been an anti-war activist and secretary to the Rockford Furniture Workers (a local chapter of the I.W.W., the Industrial Workers of the World) Charges were also brought forward on the account of his non-registration. He was released from jail in 26-July-1919 on bond, sentenced to a five-year term, and quickly took to writing fiction stories. That came a quick close when in 25-April-1921 he was sent back to Leavenworth to serve another five-year term, for obstruction of the draft. June 1922, President Harding commuted his sentence.

Hough, Emerson (1857-1923) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/they-should-have-been-in-weird-tales_9.html

Hough, William Freeman (1891-1968); used pseudonyms Araminta Abbott & William Wills Bradford (items) (chron.)

Born Deadwood, South Dakota 16-Nov-1891; died Seattle Oct-1968.

Houghland, (John) Mason (1888-1959) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/memorial/152558113/john-mason-houghland

Houghton, J(oseph) F(rancis) (1884-?) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-j-f-houghton/146076429/

Houston, Temple (Lea) (1860-1905) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lea_Houston

Howard, (Richmond) Clark (1932-2016) (items) (chron.)

See obituaries.desertsun.com/obituaries/thedesertsun/obituary.aspx?n=richmond-clark-howard&pid=181728551&fhid=2676

Howard, Eric; [born Howard Ernest Schaefle] (1895-1943) (items) (chron.)

Born in Nebraska; educated at University of California, and Harvard and Columbia Universities; contributed more than 600 stories and many articles to nearly 100 magazines; lived in Los Angeles; registered for the WWI draft under his birth name, but as Eric Howard for WWII draft and his death in California is under Eric Howard. Apparently wrote under many unidentified pseudonyms.

Howard, Harrison R. (1888-?) (items) (chron.)

Traveller, one-time worker in a lumber-camp. Born in San Francisco, California.

Howard, Robert E(rvin) (1906-1936) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard

Howitt, John Newton (1885-1958) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Howitt.html

Hoyt, (Edwin) Palmer (1897-1979) (items) (chron.)

Journalist, writer, editor, publisher. Born in Roseville, Illinois; died in Denver, Colorado.

Hubbard, Freeman H(enry) (1894-1981) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_H._Hubbard

Hubbard, L(afayette) Ron(ald, Sr.) (1911-1986) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

Hudson, Virginia Tyler (1886-?); later known as Virginia Hudson Brightman (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tyler_Hudson

Huff, Helene (1918-2004) (items) (chron.)

See www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=helene-huff-mccormick&pid=88845969&

Huffaker, Clair Walter (1926-1990) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/clair-huffaker-cover-gallery.html

Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston (1902-1967) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes

Hughes, Llewellyn (fl. 1920s-1950s) (items) (chron.); name also given as Vincent Llewellyn Hughes and Llewellyn V. Hughes.

Born in Wales; naturalized as an American.

Hughes, Rupert (1872-1956) (items) (chron.)

Born in Lancaster, Mo.; educated at Western Reserve and Yale Universities. Dramatist, novelist, biographer, and musicologist.

Hume, Tobias (1579-1645) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Hume

Humphreys, Ray (1893-1973) (items) (chron.)

Born in Denver. Reporter, then chief investigator for a D.A.’s office.

Hungerford, James Edward (1883-1964) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edward_Hungerford

Hunt, Frazier (1885-1967) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_Hunt

Hunter, Evan (1926-2005); previously known as S. A. Lombino (items) (chron.); name originally: Salvatore A. Lombino.

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Hunter

Hunter, (Alfred) John (1891-1961) (items) (chron.)

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

Hurst, S(amuel) B(ertram) H(aworth) (1876-1937) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2013/08/sbh-hurst-sailor-traveller-and-writer.html

Hutchison, David C(hapel) (1869-1954) (items) (chron.)

See www.pulpartists.com/Hutchison.html

Hutton, W(illiam?) R(ichard) (1913?-1998?) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/w-r-hutton.html

Huzarski, Richard G(eorge) (1910-1977) (items) (chron.)

Born in Warsaw, Poland; died in New Mexico.

Hyder, (Frederick) Alan (1895-1952) (items) (chron.)

See desturmobed.blogspot.com/2019/02/alan-hyder.html

Hyer, Martha (1924-2014) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hyer

Idaho Bill, Colonel; pseudonym of Barnet R. Pearson (1868-1942) (items) (chron.)

See files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bios/pearson.txt

Ingraham, Prentiss (1843-1904) (items) (chron.)

See www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/ingraham_prentiss.html

Irvine, Bryan (1885-1945) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2023/04/bryan-irvine-1885-1945-prison-ghost.html

Irving, Washington (1783-1859) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving

Irwin, Wallace (Admah) (1875-1959) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Irwin

Irwin, Will(iam Henry) (1873-1948) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Irwin

Isbell, Lucile; [i.e., Lucile J. Malinda Isbell Stall] (1896-1965) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95862782

Isely, Reymoure Keith (fl. 1950s-1970s) (items) (chron.)

Broadcasting executive and radio actor turned farmer in Canada.

Jackson, Charles Tenney (1874-1955) (items) (chron.)

See nebraskaauthors.org/authors/charles-tenney-jackson

Jackson, Frederick (John) (1886-1953) (items) (chron.)

Playwright, novelist, producer for stage, screen and television. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania; died in Hollywood, California.

Jackson, Margaret Weymouth (1895-1974) (items) (chron.)

See indianajournalismhof.org/1996/01/margaret-weymouth-jackson

Jacobi, Carl (Richard) (1908-1997) (items) (chron.)

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

Jacobs, W(illiam) W(ymark) (1863-1943) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._W._Jacobs

Jakes, John (William) (1932-2023); used pseudonyms Alexander Blade & S. M. Tenneshaw (items) (chron.)

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

Jakobsson, Ejler (Gunnar) (1911-1984) (items) (chron.); name also given as Ejler Jacobson.

See sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jakobsson_ejler

James, Frederic; pseudonym of Robert Greenleaf Athearn (1914-1983) (items) (chron.)

Historian and writer. Born in Kremlin, Montana; lives in Colorado.

James, G(eorge) P(ayne) R(ainsford, Esq.) (1799-1860) (items) (chron.)

Born in London; prolific novelist; spent much time in France; the popularity of his writing was destroyed by a savage parody of his work by Thackeray in Punch in 1847; appointed consul to Massachusetts in 1850 and became a literary celebrity there; appointed consul-general of the Austrian ports in the Adriatic in 1856.

James, Harry (Haag) (1916-1983) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James

James, Laurence (William) (1942-2000) (items) (chron.)

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

James, Will(iam Roderick) (1892-1942) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_James_(artist)

Jameson, Arthur E(dward) (1872-1957) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Jameson.html

Janes, J(erry) George (1902-1999) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Janes.html

Jarvis, E. K. (fl. 1940s-1950s); house pseudonym used by Robert Bloch (1917-1994), Harlan Ellison (1934-2018), Paul W. Fairman (1909-1977) & Robert Silverberg (1935- ) (items) (chron.)

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

Jenkins, Charles C(hristopher) (1882-1943) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/charles-christopher-jenkins-1882-1943.html

Jenkins, Will(iam) F(itzgerald) (1896-1975); used pseudonym Murray Leinster (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Leinster

Jenney, Robert (Ludke) (1914-2000) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Jenney.html

Jennings, Al(phonso J.) (1863-1961) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jennings

Jennison, John W(illiam) (1911-1980) (items) (chron.)

See sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jennison_john_w

Joffe, Robert Maxwell (1908-1971) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell_(producer)

Johns, Bruce (fl. 1920s-1930s) (items) (chron.)

Journalist. Born in the northwestern United States; lived in California.

Johns, Talbot (1909-1969) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2013/11/talbot-johns-1909-1969.html