The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 29

Smith, George O(liver) (1911-1981) (items) (chron.)

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

Smith, Mrs. Harry Pugh; married name of Anita Blackmon (1892-1943) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2014/11/mrs-harry-pugh-smith-1892-1943.html

Smith, Horace (Horatio) (1779-1849) (items) (chron.)

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

Smith, John; [born Robert Errol Van Orden] (1931-1995) (items)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(actor)

Smith, Junius B(ailey) (1883-1945) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2025/08/junius-b-smith-1883-1945.html

Smith, Leonard K(ingsley) (1876-1955) (items) (chron.)

Clergyman and author. Born in Boston, Massachusetts; died in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Smith, Malcolm H. (1910-1966) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/SmithM.html

Smith, Martin Ryerson (1907-2003) (items) (chron.)

Born in New York City; writer for numerous radio and TV network shows; pulp magazine writer.

Smith, Ralph Crosby (1907-1962) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/SmithR.html

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

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

Smith, William Bryan; [born William Bryan Schmidt] (1897-1995) (items) (chron.)

See www.pulpartists.com/SmithWB.html

Sneddon, Robert W(illiam) (1880-1944) (items) (chron.)

See pseudopod.org/people/robert-w-sneddon

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

Soglow, Otto (1900-1975) (items) (chron.)

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

Sokoli, Joseph; [i.e., Joseph Szokoli] (1913-1981) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Szokoli.html

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.

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/

Standish, Burt L.; pseudonym of Gilbert Patten (1866-1945) (items) (chron.); primarily a personal pseudonym of Gilbert Patten, but also used by a handful of other authors.

See https://ulib.niu.edu/badndp/patten_william.html

Stanley, Chuck; pseudonym of Charles S. Strong (1906-1962) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Strong

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

Starbird, George A(lbert) (1908-1994) (items) (chron.)

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

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

Stodghill, Dick (1925?-2009) (items) (chron.)

See https://stodg.blogspot.com/