The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 23

Petersen, Herman (1893-1973) (items) (chron.)

Born in Utica, N.Y.; writer for the pulps; worked for Utica newspapers; was a postmaster in Poolville, N.Y.

Peterson, West F.; [i.e., Wesley Frank Peterson] (1907-1981) (items)

See geneseo.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?i=f&d=01011836-12312020&e=wesley f peterson&m=between&ord=e1&fn=geneseo_republic_usa_illinois_geneseo_19810501_english_9&df=1&dt=5

Pettee, F(lorence) M(ae) (1885-1966) (items) (chron.)

Born in Spencer, Massachusetts; died in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Pettigrew, Homer (1915-1997) (items) (chron.)

See www.prorodeohalloffame.com/inductees/by-category/steer-wrestling/homer-pettigrew/

Pfalser, Ivan L(ewis) (1930-2014) (items) (chron.)

See www.pottsfuneralhome.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=52494&locid=90

Pfeifer, Pat(sy Mae) (1932-1987) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-oregonian-pat-pfeifer/157293997/

Phares, (Oscar) Ross (1908-2006) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/memorial/235005860/oscar-ross-phares

Phillips, Ernie; [i.e., Ernest Allen Phillips] (1897-1988) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-ernie-phillips/153831220/

Phillips, Henry Wallace (1869-1930) (items) (chron.)

See buddiesinthesaddle.blogspot.com/2011/05/henry-wallace-phillips-red-saunders.html

Phillips, John Randolph (1904-1993) (items) (chron.)

See scottsvillemuseum.com/portraits/homeKM209acdKM09.html

Phillips, Michael J(ames) (1876-?) (items) (chron.)

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

Phillips, Roland (Ashford) (1884-1969) (items) (chron.)

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

Phillips, Ron Earl (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See www.ronearlphillips.com

Phin; pseudonym of Ernest Thayer (1863-1940) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thayer

Pierce, Frank(lin) Richardson (1887-1966) (items) (chron.)

Writer. Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts; died in Washington (?).

Pink, [Rev.] Harry Leigh “Hal” (1906-1973) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/hal-pink.html

Pinkerton, Kathrene (Gedney) (1887-1967) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/06/kathrene-and-robert-pinkerton-husband.html

Pinkerton, Robert E(ugene) (1882-1970) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/06/kathrene-and-robert-pinkerton-husband.html

Pitt, Chart(ly Artell) (1878-1966) (items) (chron.)

Born in Portage County, Wisconsin; contributed short stories, novelettes and verse to many newspapers and periodicals in the U.S. and abroad; member of Washington State legislature; died in Mukito, Washington.

Pitt, Stanley (John Joseph) (1925-2002) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Pitt

Pitt, William (?-1840) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_(ship-builder)

Pitts, Tom (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See www.tompittsauthor.com

Pitzer, R(obert) C(laiborne) (1879-1962) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38922516

Pladwell, E(dgar) S(pencer) (1884-1964) (items) (chron.)

Journalist and writer. Probably born in Oregon (one source says Brooklyn, New York); lived in Oakland, California.

Plaisted, (Charles) Max(well) (1902-1956) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Plaisted.html

Plimmer, Denis (1914-1981) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2020/09/denis-plimmer-1914-1981-part-one.html

Poate, Ernest M(arsh) (1884-1935) (items) (chron.)

Born on a ship in the Indian Ocean; died in Southern Pines, North Carolina; psychiatrist, attorney and author.

Poe, Dupree (1902-1965) (items) (chron.)

Born in Texas, convicted of slaying marshal, served 31 year jail sentence in Oregon. Died in a car accident.

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

Pollock, Frank Lillie (1876-1957) (items) (chron.)

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

Poole, Reginald Heber (1885-1959) (items) (chron.)

Born in Northwich; author, editor, and journalist.

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope

Popp, Walter (Robert) (1920-2002) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Popp.html

Porter, Harold Everett (1887-1936) (items) (chron.)

Born in Hyde Park, Mass.; educated at Harvard University.

Porter, William Sydney (1862-1910); used pseudonym O. Henry (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

Post, Melville Davisson (1869-1930) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Davisson_Post

Potter, David (1874-1962) (items) (chron.)

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

Potter, E(llis) W(ellington) (1920-1981) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Potter.html

Powell, J(ohn) W(esley) (1834-1902) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Powell

Powell, Talmage (1920-2000) (items) (chron.)

Novelist and short story writer. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina; lived in Asheville, North Carolina.

Powers, Alfred (fl. 1920s-1940s) (items) (chron.)

Teacher, writer. Dean of the General Extension Division, Oregon State System of Higher Education. Born in Delania, Arkansas; lived in Oregon.

Prance, Bertram (Stanley) (1889-1958) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Prance

Pratt, Harry Noyes (1879-1944) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/10/harry-noyes-pratt-1879-1944.html

Preble, Zahrah E(thel) (1880-1934) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2023/09/zahrah-e-preble-1880-1934.html

Preece, Harold (1906-1992) (items) (chron.)

Journalist, writer, specialist in Texas history. Born in Austin, Texas.

Prentice, Ralph (Everett) (1901-1967) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/memorial/158704589/ralph-everett-prentice

Prescott, John (Brewster) (1919-1999) (items) (chron.)

Author of westerns, novels and short stories. Born in Menominee, Michigan; lived in Phoenix, Arizona.

Presley, Elvis (Aaron) (1935-1977) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

Preston, George Hyde (1857-1937) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-seattle-star/142475169

Prévost, Marcel (1862-1941) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Prévost

Price, E(dgar) Hoffmann (“Trooper”) (1898-1988) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Hoffmann_Price

Pringle, Murray T. (fl. 1940s-1960s) (items) (chron.)

Archaeologist.

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Prior

Prior, Percy B. (fl. 1920s-1930s) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2015/06/percy-b-prior.html

Pritchard, Harmon; [born Herman Prichep] (1890-1938) (items) (chron.)

See rogallery.com/Pritchard_Harmon/pritchard-biography.html

Pritchett, Lulita Crawford (1906-1991) (items) (chron.)

See www.lulitacrawfordpritchett.com

Pronzini, Bill; [i.e., William John Pronzini] (1943- ) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pronzini

Propp, James (Carl) (1918-2002) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/muskogee-daily-phoenix-and-times-democra/145895860

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeievitch (1799-1837) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin

Pyles, V(irgil) E(vans) (1891-1965) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Pyles.html

Quigley, Ray(mond Lyman) (1909-1998) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Quigley.html

Quinn, Anthony; [i.e., Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca] (1915-2001) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Quinn

Radcliffe, (Henry) Garnett (1898-1971) (items) (chron.)

Educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and at Sandhurst; served in India on the North-West Frontier and with the RAF in South Arabia and Socotra; later a civil servant.

Raht, Carlysle Graham (1880-1972) (items) (chron.)

See www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fra13

Raine, William MacLeod (1871-1954) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacLeod_Raine

Raines, Theron (W.) (1925-2012) (items) (chron.)

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

Rainey, Roy C. (fl. 1930s-1960s); house pseudonym used by William R. Cox (1901-1988) & William Heuman (1912-1971) (items) (chron.)

used by at least five writers in different magazines; three have been identified, the rest are presumably by staff writers.