The General Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 108

Shannon, Mary (fl. 1920s-1940s) (items) (chron.)

Teacher and writer. Born in British Columbia, Canada.

Shannon, Robert Terry (1895-1950) (items) (chron.)

Born in Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday Editor of the Kansas City Star when registering for WWI draft; later lived in Virginia and then Norwalk, Connecticut; died in Los Angeles.

Shapiro, Lionel (Sebastian Berk) (1908-1958) (items) (chron.)

Born in Montreal. Foreign correspondent for U.S. newspapers and broadcasts.

Sharkey, Emma Augusta; [née Browne] (1858-1902); used pseudonym E. Burke Collins (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Augusta_Sharkey

Sharp, (James George) David (1889-1954) (items) (chron.)

Born in Reigate, Surrey; died in Bodmin, Cornwall.

Sharp, Elizabeth A(melia) (1856-1932) (items)

Wife of William Sharp.

Sharp, Rosamund (1886-1960) (items) (chron.)

Daughter of Edith Nesbit.

Sharp, William (1855-1905) (items) (chron.)

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

Sharp, William (1900-1961) (items) (chron.)

Born in Lemberg (now Lvev), Austria; came to the United States in 1934; died in New York City. His death date is sometimes incorrectly listed as 1965.

Sharp, (William) Willoughby (1900-1956) (items) (chron.)

Succeeded his father as a member of the New York Stock Exchange; lived in Bermuda 1931- 1935; partner in publishing firm of Kendall & Sharp beginning in 1935; account executive of the Research Institute beginning in 1943.

Sharts, Joseph (William) (1875-1965) (items) (chron.)

Born in Hamilton, Ohio; graduate of Harvard; practiced law in Dayton, Ohio.

Shaw, [Captain] Frank H(ubert) (1878-1960) (items) (chron.)

English sea captain. Born in Yorkshire, England. Brother of Stanley Gordon Shaw.

Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

Shaw, Irwin (1913-1984) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Shaw

Shaw, Janet Beeler (1937- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.encyclopedia.com/children/academic-and-educational-journals/shaw-janet-1937

Shaw, [Dr.] John (1778-1809) (items) (chron.)

See www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=225

Shaw, K. C. (fl. 2000s-2010s) (items) (chron.)

See kcshaw.net

Shaw, Larry T.; [i.e., Lawrence Taylor Shaw] (1924-1985) (items) (chron.)

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

Shaw, (Frederick) Stanley (1870-1935) (items) (chron.)

Born and died in Boston; A physician in general practice.

Shay, Frank; [i.e., Francis Xavier William Theodore Shay] (1888-1954) (items) (chron.)

Born in East Orange, N.J.; died in Wellfleet, Massachusetts; bookstore owner, editor, actor, biographer and novelist. (Note: Last name originally spelled Shea.

Shearer, Lloyd (1914-2001) (items) (chron.)

See www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/us/lloyd-shearer-longtime-celebrity-columnist-dies-at-84.html

Sheckley, Robert (1928-2005) (items) (chron.)

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

Shedd, George C(lifford) (1877-1937) (items) (chron.)

Born in Ashland, Nebraska; educated at U. of Nebraska; teacher in rural Nebraska school, dealer in real estate, and full-time writer after 1918; lived in California after 1928.

Shedd, Margaret (Cochran) (1898-1986) (items)

Born in Persia.

Sheehan, Perley Poore (1875-1943) (items) (chron.)

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

Sheldon, Clay (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See www.strangemusingspress.com/2013/12/author-bio-clay-sheldon.html

Sheldon, E. Lloyd (1886-1957) (items) (chron.)

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

Sheldon, Edward (Brewster) (1886-1946) (items)

Born in Chicago.

Sheldon, Lurana W.; [i.e., Lurana Waterhouse Sheldon Ferris] (1862-1945) (items) (chron.)

Born in Hadlyme, Connecticut; died in Maine.

Sheldon, Walter J(ames) (1917-1996) (items) (chron.)

Writer of mysteries, editor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; lived in Bellingham, Washington.

Shelley, Mary W(ollstonecraft Godwin) (1797-1851); previously known as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (items) (chron.)

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

Shellhase, George (M.) (1895-1988) (items) (chron.)

See ctstatelibrary.org/shellhase-george

Shelton, Dick; [i.e., Richard Shelton] (1928-1987) (items) (chron.)

See www.imdb.com/name/nm0970635

Shelton, Richard Barker (1876-1944) (items) (chron.)

Not to be confused with editor Richard Shelton (1926-1963).

Shen Chi-Chi [fl. 750-800] (items) (chron.)

a member of the Institute of National Historiography in the reign of Emperor Te Tsung, he compiled the “Veritable Records” of his age, the T’ang dynasty.

Shenton, Edward (1895-1977) (items) (chron.)

Book illustrator and author. Born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Shepard, Odell (1884-1967) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell_Shepard

Shepherd, George (fl. 1910s) (items) (chron.)

Probably not engineer George DeFrees Shepherd (1864-1926).

Shepherd, J(oy) Clinton (1888-1975) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Shepherd.html

Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder (1871-1947) (items) (chron.)

Born in London; educated at Bishop’s Stortford; author and critic.

Sheppard, [Dr.] Sam(uel Holmes) (1923-1970) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sheppard

Sherburne, Zoa (Morin) (1912-1995) (items) (chron.)

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

Sheridan, Max (fl. 2010s-2020s) (items) (chron.)

See maxsheridanlit.com

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan

Sheridan, Sol(omon) N(eill) (1859-1936) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_N._Sheridan

Sherman, Allan; [born Allan Copelon] (1924-1973) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Sherman

Sherman, Ellen Burns (1867-1956) (items) (chron.)

See prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=1083700

Sherrill, Elizabeth (1928- ) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Elizabeth_Sherrill

Sherwood, Margaret Pollock (1864-1955) (items) (chron.)

See www.vassar.edu/vcencyclopedia/alumni/Margaret Pollock Sherwood.html

Shiel, M(atthew) P(hipps) (1865-1947) (items) (chron.)

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

Shiffrin, Abraham B. (1902-1998) (items) (chron.)

Playwright, dealer in antiquarian books. Born in Poland; lived in New York.

Shikaze, Trevor (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See trevorshikaze.com

Shilstone, Arthur (1922- ) (items) (chron.)

See store.russellfinkgallery.com/shar2.html

Shinn, Everett (1876-1953) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Shinn

Shinn, Florence Scovel (1871-1940) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Scovel_Shinn

Shipman, Natalie (1902-1967) (items) (chron.)

See gunnhistoricalmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/person/390699A0-D5FB-40C4-A8B1-174207491988

Shipman, Samuel (1883-1937) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shipman

Shippey, (Henry) Lee (1884-1969) (items) (chron.)

Born in Memphis, Tennessee.

Shirāzi, Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallāh, Saadi Shirazi (1210-1291) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi_Shirazi

Shirk-Johnstone, Hermona; [born Hermona Kaufman] (1895-1977) (items) (chron.)

Born in Chicago; her father died when she was 3 and her mother married Raymond Shirk; Hermona married someone named Johnstone but that marriage failed; died in New York City.

Shirley, Florence; [born Florence Isabell Splaine] (1892-1967) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Shirley

Shirley, Florence Henderson (1883-1934) (items) (chron.)

Writer, editor of journal The Editor. Born in New York City; died in Newark, New Jersey.

Shirley, Glenn (Deane) (1916-2002); used pseudonym Lance Kermit (items) (chron.)

See nationalcowboymuseum.org/finding-aids/shirley-collection

Shirvanian, Vahan (1925-2013) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahan_Shirvanian

Shivers, Louise; [born Julia Louise Shingleton] (1929-2014) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Shivers

Sholl, Anna McClure (1868-1956) (items) (chron.)

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; attended Cornell University; died in New York City.