The General Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 25

Collins, (William) Wilkie (1824-1889) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins

Collins, William (1721-1759) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Collins_(poet)

Collison, (Clyde) Wilson (1893-1941) (items) (chron.)

Born in Ohio; a playwright.

Collyer, Robert (1823-1912) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Collyer

Colter, Eli; pseudonym of May Eliza Frost (1890-1984) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2012/05/eli-colter-1890-1984.html

Colwin, Laurie (1944-1992) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Colwin

Colyton, Henry John (fl. 1940s-1950s) (items) (chron.)

Writer. Born in Ohio.

Combes, Helen (1864-1949) (items) (chron.)

Journalist, writer and poet. Born in England; died in Los Angeles, California.

Comfort, Alex(ander) (1920-2000) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Comfort

Comfort, Will Levington (1878-1932) (items) (chron.)

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan; novelist and short story writer; war correspondent for various newspapers; sportsman; veteran of Spanish-American War; died in Los Angeles, California.

Common, Thomas (1850-1919) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Common

Comyn, Marian; [born Marian Skinner] (1861-1938) (items) (chron.)

Born in Worcestershire, England; married solicitor Henry Ernest Fitzwilliam Comyn in 1884; died in Surrey.

Conant, Howell (1916-1999) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_Conant

Conarain, (Alice) Nina (1898-1982) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hoy

Condell, Henry (1576-1627) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Condell

Condon, Frank (1882-1940) (items) (chron.)

Born in Toledo, Ohio and a reporter there; advertising man in NYC; then screenwriter and magazine writer in L.A.; died in Beverly Hills, California

Condon, Ralph (Whitney) (1905-1975) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/los-gatos-times-saratoga-observer-obitua/130312365/

Cone, Helen Gray (1859-1934) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gray_Cone

Confucius [551-479 BC] (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius

Congreve, William (1670-1729) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve

Conine, (Odie) Ernest (1925- ) (items) (chron.)

Writer and journalist. Born in Dallas, Texas; lives in Los Angeles, California.

Conington, John (1825-1869) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Conington

Conley, Jen (fl. 2010s-2020s) (items) (chron.)

See www.jenconley.net

Conlon, Ben; [i.e., Bernard Matthew Conlon] (1889-1964) (items) (chron.)

See www.pulpartists.com/Hoffman.html

Connell, Richard (Edward, Jr.) (1893-1949) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Connell

Connell, Vivian (Cecil Francis St. John) (1905-1981) (items) (chron.)

Self-educated Irish playwright and novelist, born in Cork.

Connelly, George L. (1908-?) (items) (chron.)

Born in Westtown, Pennsylvania.

Connelly, J(ames) H(enderson) (1840-1903) (items) (chron.)

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

Conner, Mac; [i.e., McCauley Conner] (1913-2019) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Conner

Connolly, James B(rendan) (1868-1957) (items) (chron.)

Author of sea stories, 1896 Olympic champion (gold metal in the triple jump). Born in South Boston, Massachusetts; died in Boston, Massachusetts.

Connolly, Vera L(eona) (1888-1964) (items) (chron.)

See www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078648/

Connor, Brevard Mays (1888-1952) (items) (chron.)

Texas writer.

Connor, Buck (1881-?) (items) (chron.)

Texas ranger, trick roper with Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show until it merged with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Born in San Sabe County, Texas.

Conrad, Barnaby (Jr.) (1922-2013) (items) (chron.)

Author; secretary to Sinclair Lewis; also worked as an artist and diplomat. Born in San Francisco, California.

Conrad, Joseph; [working name of Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski] (1857-1924) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad

Conrey, Lee (1883-1976) (items) (chron.)

See illustrationart.blogspot.com/2012/12/lee-conrey-1883-1976.html

Considine, John L(yons) (1871-1951) (items) (chron.)

See genealogytrails.com/nev/carson/bios.html

Constiner, (Francis) Merle (1902-1979) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2019/01/merle-constiner-biographical-article.html

Converse, Frank H. (1843-1889) (items) (chron.)

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

Conway, Hugh; pseudonym of F. J. Fargus (1847-1885) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Conway

Cook, Albert Jay (fl. 1910s-1930s) (items) (chron.)

Probably not the banker and surgeon (1849?-1931).

Cook, Berton E(llsworth) (1889-1958) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/berton-e-cook-sailor-teacher-author.html

Cook, Eliza (1818-1889) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Cook

Cook, Harold Lewis (1897-1989) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lewis_Cook

Cook, (Richard Martin) Oscar (1888-1952) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/oscar-cook-1888-1952.html

Cook, W(illiam) Victor (1875-1955) (items) (chron.)

Born in London; a journalist.

Cook, Will(iam Everett) (1921-1964) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Cook_(writer)

Cook, William Wallace (1867-1933) (items) (chron.)

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

Cooke, Grace MacGowan (1863-1944) (items) (chron.)

Born in Ohio; grew up in Chattanooga; lived later in N.J. and California. Sister of Alice MacGowan.

Cooke, Hope (1940- ) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Cooke

Cooke, Marjorie Benton (1876-1920) (items) (chron.)

Born in Richmond, Indiana.

Cooke, Virginia Marie (1907-1987) (items) (chron.)

See www.imdb.com/name/nm0177509

Cooksley, (Sidney) Bert (fl. 1920s-1940s) (items) (chron.)

California writer and poet.

Coolen, Antoon; [i.e., Antonius Franciscus Coolen] (1897-1961) (items) (chron.)

See nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoon_Coolen_(1897-1961)

Cooley, Winnifred Harper (1874-1967) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnifred_Harper_Cooley

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K(entish) (1877-1947) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Coomaraswamy

Coombes, B(ert) L(ewis) (1893-1974) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._L._Coombes

Coomer, George H. (1825-1901) (items) (chron.)

Born in Bristol, RI, on December 25, 1825; spent time as a sailor, and from 1876 to 1878 co-owned the Warren Massachusetts Gazette; died in Warren, RI on January 2, 1901.

Cooper, Courtney Ryley (1886-1940); used pseudonyms Barney Furey, William O. Grenolds, Jack Harlow, Leonard D. Hollister & Frederick Tierney (items) (chron.)

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, ran away age 16 to become a circus clown; later sign painter and performer, circus general manager, press agent for William “Buffalo Bill” Cody; journalist in Kansas City, New York and Denver; lived in Florida; died in New York City.

Cooper, (Gwaldys) Dorothy (c1912-1981?) (items) (chron.)

Wrote romances under some eight names in the 1960s and was then living in Tangiers; once worked for the British Foreign Office.

Cooper, Edgar L(eake) (1892-1945) (items) (chron.)

Born and died in Texas; writer of western pulp fiction.

Cooper, Gary (1901-1961) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cooper

Cooper, George (1840-1927) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cooper_(poet)

Cooper, H. S. (fl. 1890s-1920s) (items) (chron.)

Explorer. Born in the Isle of Wight, England; lived in Texas.

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper

Cooper, Leonard (1900-1997) (items) (chron.)

Brother of Lettice Cooper.

Cooper, Paul Fenimore (1899-1970) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fenimore_Cooper