The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 29

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

Traveller and writer. Born in San Francisco, California.

Somervell, Brehon B(urke) (1892-1955) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brehon_B._Somervell

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spofford, Harriet (Elizabeth) Prescott (1835-1921); previously known as Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (items) (chron.)

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

Spooner, (Albert) Clinton (, Jr.) (1913-1973) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Spooner.html

Sprang, Richard W(illiam) (1915-2000) (items) (chron.)

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

Sprigg, Theodore S(tanhope) (1903-1977) (items)

See andrewdarlington.blogspot.com/2019/01/science-fiction-two-magazines-called.html

Spring, Agnes Wright; [born Agnes Rebecca Wright] (1894-1988) (items) (chron.)

See eadsrv.denverlibrary.org/sdx/pl/doc-tdm.xsp?id=WH1163_d0e35&fmt=text&base=fa

Springer, Thomas Grant (1873-?) (items) (chron.)

Author and playwright. Born in Sacramento, California.

Squires, C(harles) Clyde (1883-1970) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Squires.html

Stack, Robert; [born Charles Langford Modini Stack] (1919-2003) (items)

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

Stacpoole, H(enry) de Vere (1863-1951) (items) (chron.)

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

Stalnaker, Leo (1897-1986) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-obituary-for-ex-lawmak/157290059/

Stanley, Robert (Charles, Jr.) (1918-1996) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Stanley.html

Stannard, Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer; [Mrs. Arthur Stannard] (1856-1911) (items) (chron.)

Born in York, Yorkshire, England, and educated there; published author from 1874; spent ten years on the Family Herald; settled in London after married in 1884; died in Middlesex, London, England.

Stanwyck, Barbara; [born Ruby Catherine Stevens] (1907-1990) (items)

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

Starrett, (Charles) Vincent (Emerson) (1886-1974) (items) (chron.)

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

Stebbings, Coteau Gene; [i.e., Eugene Stebbings] (1875-1941?) (items) (chron.)

From Chicago, Illinois.

Steber, A. R. (fl. 1930s-1950s); house pseudonym used by Raymond A. Palmer (1910-1977) (items) (chron.)

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

Steele, Johannes; [born Herbert Stahl] (1908-1988) (items) (chron.)

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

Steele, Richard (1672-1729); used pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (items) (chron.)

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

Stefánsson, Vilhjálmur; [born William Stephenson] (1879-1962) (items) (chron.)

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

Steiger, Rod(ney Stephen) (1925-2002) (items)

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

Stein, Harvé (1904-1996) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Stein,Harve.html

Stein, Modest; [born Modest Aronstam] (1871-1958) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Stein.html

Steinbeck, John (Ernst, Jr.) (1902-1968) (items) (chron.)

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

Sterrett, Jack; [i.e., John Moore Sterrett] (1902-1976) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/carpinteria-herald-jack-sterrett-author/135485472/

Stevens, James (Floyd) (1892-1971) (items) (chron.)

Novelist, popularizer of tales of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Born near Albia, Iowa; died in Seattle, Washington. Not to be confused with educationist James Stacey Stevens (1864-1940).

Stevenson, Edward M(cMurtry) (1896-1987) (items) (chron.)

See www.askart.com/artist/Edward_M_Stevenson/10051838/Edward_M_Stevenson.aspx

Stevenson, Robert Louis (Balfour) (1850-1894) (items) (chron.)

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

Stevenson, Steve (fl. 1920s-1930s) (items) (chron.)

Not to be confused with football player Vincent M. Stevenson (1884-1962) who used the name Steve Stevenson.

Stewart, Andrea G. (1982- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.andreagstewart.com

Stewart, Jimmy; [i.e., James Maitland Stewart] (1908-1997) (items)

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

Stewart, Sam (fl. 1940s-1950s) (items) (chron.)

Editor of a Utah newspaper. Probably born in Colorado.

Stewart, Solon K(elly) (1883-?) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2013/12/solon-k-stewart-1883.html

Stilson, Charles B(illings) (1880-1932) (items) (chron.)

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

Stinson, H(erbert) H(unter) (1896-1969) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/memorial/55082533/herbert-hunter-stinson

Stock, Ralph (1881-1962) (items) (chron.)

Born in London; author, playwright and scenarist.

Stocking, Margery (Amy) (1888-1993) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Stocking.html

Stokes, Manning Lee (1911-1976) (items) (chron.)

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

Stokes, (Francis Martin) Sewell (1902-1979) (items) (chron.)

Born in Hampstead; educated at Cranleigh; author and journalist; biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and probation officer at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court; died in London.

Stoll, Gloria; [i.e., Gloria Marie Karn] [née Stoll] (1923-2022) (items) (chron.)

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

Stone, Marland (O’Berry) (1895-1975) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Stone,Marland.html

Stone, Paul H. (1902-1986) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Stone.html

Storm, Barry; pseudonym of John G. Climenson (1910-1971) (items) (chron.)

See www.desertusa.com/desert-prospecting/barry-storm.html

Story, Walter Scott (1879-1955) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2023/05/walter-scott-story-1879-1955-first.html

Stotter, Michael (fl. 1980s-2000s) (items) (chron.)

See www.mikestotter.com

Stovall, Dennis H(erbert) (1878-1941) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/corvallis-gazette-times-obituary-for-den/146144879

Strang, Robert Russell (1877-?) (items) (chron.)

Traveller, spent time in Yukon and Alaskan territories. Born in Scotland.

Stratton, Ted; [i.e., John Theodore Stratton] (1902-1984) (items) (chron.)

School teacher and author. Born in Far Hills, New Jersey.

Strayer, Paul (1886-1981) (items) (chron.)

See www.pulpartists.com/Strayer.html

Streib, William; pseudonym of John H. Striebel (1891-1962) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Streib.html

Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874) (items) (chron.)

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

Strickland, Mabel; [i.e., Mabel Strickland Woodward] (1897-1976) (items) (chron.)

See www.cowgirl.net/portfolios/mabel-strickland-woodward

Striebel, John H. (1891-1962); used pseudonyms William Streib & Stephen Waite (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Striebel.html

Stringer, Arthur (John Arbuthnott) (1874-1950) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Stringer_(writer)

Strong, Charles S(tanley) (1906-1962) (items) (chron.)

Born in Brooklyn; educated at Roy Frederick University, Oslo; traveler, explorer, especially of the Arctic and Canada; novelist, lecturer, and editor; lived in N.Y.; died in Hempstead, New York.

Sturgeon, Theodore; [born Edward Hamilton Waldo] (1918-1985) (items) (chron.)

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

Sturtzel, H(oward) A(llison) (1894-1984) (items) (chron.)

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

Suckling, John (1609-1642) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suckling_(poet)

Sudermann, Hermann (1857-1928) (items) (chron.)

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

Sullivan, (Edward) Alan (1868-1947) (items) (chron.)

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