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Bechdolt, Frederick R(itchie) (1874-1950) (items) (chron.)
Author of western fiction. Born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; died in Carmel, California.


Bechdolt, Jack; [i.e., John Ernest Bechdolt] (1884-1954) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bechdolt_jack


Beck, Claire P. (1919-1999) (items) (chron.)
See www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/category/claire-beck


Beck, L(ily) Adams (1862-1931) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Adams_Beck


Becke, (George) Louis (1855-1913) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lewis_Becke


Bedford, (George) Randolph (1868-1941) (items) (chron.)
Born in Sydney, Australia; author and legislator.


Bedford-Jones, H(enry James O’Brien) (1887-1949) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bedford-jones_h


Bedwell, Harry (Chester) (1888-1955) (items) (chron.)
See www.findagrave.com/memorial/9280295/harry-chester-bedwell


Beeding, Francis; pseudonym of Hilary St. George Saunders & John Palmer (fl. 1920s-1940s) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/beeding_francis


Beery, Wallace (Fitzgerald) (1885-1949) (items)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Beery


Begbie, Ian Mars (1900-1963) (items) (chron.)
Son of Arundel (Sinclair) Begbie.


Belarski, Rudolph (1900-1983) (items) (chron.)
See pulpartists.com/BR.html


Bell, J(ohn) J(oy) (1871-1934) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joy_Bell


Bellem, Robert Leslie (1902-1968) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Leslie_Bellem


Bender, A(rthur) Lincoln (1890-1961) (items) (chron.)
See www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-obituary-for-li/146303569


Bender, Charles Albert (1884-1954) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Bender


Benjamin, Jay Wilmer; [i.e., Joseph Wilmer Benjamin, III] (1902-1977) (items) (chron.)
See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/11/jay-wilmer-benjamin-1902-1977.html


Bennett, Charles Dana (1903-1987) (items) (chron.)
See www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS239.html


Bennett, Christopher L. (fl. 1990s-2020s) (items)
See home.fuse.net/ChristopherLBennett


Bennett, Gordon (Clowe James Joseph) (1922-2010) (items) (chron.)
See www.legacy.com/obituaries/progress-index/obituary.aspx?n=gordon-clowe-james-joseph-bennett&pid=141869387


Bennett, James W(illiam) (1891-1973) (items) (chron.)
Born in Mitchell, Indiana; poet, journalist and writer; worked in legal department of U.S. Food Administration, 1918; vice consul to Shanghai, China, 1918-1919, and to Sydney, Australia, 1919; lecturer on short story writing at university in Shanghai, 1922-23; lived in Redlands, California.


Bennett, (William) Rolf (1882-1971) (items) (chron.)
Author. Born in London, England; lived in Essex, England.


Bensen, Andrew (August) (1902-1976) (items) (chron.)
See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2012/02/andrew-bensen-1902.html


Benson, E(dward) F(rederic) (1867-1940) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benson_e_f


Bercovici, Konrad (1882-1961) (items) (chron.)
Rumanian-born author, resident in U.S. from 1916. Born in Bralia, Rumania; died in New York City.


Bercovici, Leonardo (1908-1995) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Bercovici


Beresford, Leslie; [born Charles Beresford Painter, name assumed in 1910] (1878-1946) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/beresford_leslie


Berger, (Julius) David (1906-1982) (items) (chron.)
See pulpartists.com/BD.html


Bergey, Earle K(ulp) (1901-1952) (items) (chron.)
See pulpartists.com/BE.html


Berlin, Irving; [born Israel Beilin] (1888-1989) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin


Bernard, David; pseudonym of David Goudsward (fl. 1980s-2020s) (items) (chron.)
See goudsward.com/dave/index.htm


Berry, (Roderick) Bryan (1930-1966) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/bryan-berry.html


Berry, Don (George) (1932-2001) (items) (chron.)
See www.historylink.org/File/10386


Berthoud, Ferdinand (fl. 1920s-1940s) (items) (chron.)
Perhaps a pseudonym using the name of the noted French clockmaker (1727-1807).


Bertin, Jack; pseudonym of Giovanni Bertignono (1904-1963) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bertin_jack


Bester, Alfred (1913-1987); used pseudonym Alexander Blade (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bester_alfred


Betancourt, John Gregory (1963- ) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/betancourt_john_gregory


Bettany, George (Kernahan Gwynne) (1891-1949) (items) (chron.)
Born in London; died in Southend, Essex, England.


Betts, Matt(hew) (fl. 2000s-2010s) (items) (chron.)
See zombiewrangler.blogspot.co.uk


Beukema, John Charles (1888-1967) (items) (chron.)
See www.mlive.com/chronicle/2008/02/john_beukema_shaped_citys_futu.html


Beyer, William Gray (fl. 1930s-1950s) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/beyer_william_gray


Beyers, Meredith (D.) (1899-1996) (items) (chron.)
See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2018/11/meredith-beyers-1899-1996-part-one.html


Beynon, Howard B. (fl. 1920s) (items) (chron.)
Probably Canadian.


Biddle, Charles J(ohn) (1890-1972) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Biddle_(aviator)


Bierce, Ambrose (Gwinnett) (1842-1914?) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce


Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Derr_Biggers


Binder, Eando; joint pseudonym of Earl & Otto O. Binder (fl. 1930s-1970s) (items) (chron.); stories are by Otto alone unless otherwise noted.
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binder_eando


Bindloss, Harold (Edward) (1866-1945) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Edward_Bindloss


Binns, Ottwell (1872-1935) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottwell_Binns


Bird, Will(iam) R(ichard) (1891-1984) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_R._Bird


Birkinshaw, Frank (Thornton) (1898-1949) (items) (chron.)
Husband of Margaret Jepson; father of Fay Weldon.


Birney, Herman Hoffman (Jr.) (1891-1958) (items) (chron.)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; amateur archaeologist; author of western novels; died in Florence, Alabama.


Bishop, Curtis (Kent) (1912-1967) (items) (chron.)
Author. Born in Tennessee, died in Texas.


Bishop, Harry G(ore) (1874-1934) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gore_Bishop


Bishop, Julia (Virginia Phifer) Truitt (1852-1931) (items) (chron.)
Born in Mansfield, Louisiana; died in Birmingham, Alabama.


Bissell, Clayton (Lawrence) (1896-1972) (items)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Lawrence_Bissell


Bisson, Frank; [i.e., William Francis Legros Bisson] (1894-1956) (items) (chron.)
Born in Lancashire, England; died in British Columbia, Canada; served in merchant navy.


Bixby, (Drexel) Jerome (Lewis) (1923-1998) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bixby_jerome


Bjorklund, Larry F.; [i.e., Lorence Ferdinand Bjorklund] (1913-1978) (items) (chron.)
See pulpartists.com/BJorklund.html


Black, Pansy E(llen Beach) (1890-1957) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/black_pansy_e


Black, R(obert) Jere (Jr.) (1892-1953) (items) (chron.)
Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; was gassed while serving in France with the American Expeditionary Force in WWI and suffered ill health thereafter; died in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. His wife was E(lizabeth) Best Black.


Blackburn, Tom W.; [i.e., Thomas Wakefield Blackburn, II] (1913-1992) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_W._Blackburn


Blackledge, W(illiam) J(ames) (1886-1948) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/william-james-blackledge.html


Blackmon, Anita; [i.e., Anita Blackmon Smith] (1892-1943); also known as Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith (items) (chron.)
See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2014/11/mrs-harry-pugh-smith-1892-1943.html


Blackwood, Algernon (Henry) (1869-1951) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood


Blade, Alexander (fl. 1940s-1950s); house pseudonym used by Alfred Bester (1913-1987), Howard Browne (1908-1999), Chester S. Geier (1921-1991), Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977), William L. Hamling (1921-2017), John W. Jakes (1932-2023), Berkeley Livingston (1909-1975), Herbert B. Livingston (1916-2016), William P. McGivern (1922-1982), David Wright O’Brien (1918-1944), Louis H. Sampliner (1912-1993), Richard S. Shaver (1907-1975), David Vern (1914-1994), Don Wilcox (1905-2000), Robert Moore Williams (1907-1977) & Leroy Yerxa (1915-1946) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blade_alexander


Blake, (Francis William) Stacey (1873-1964) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blake_stacey



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