The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 28

Shockley, W(illiam) M. (1949- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.ragtime.nu/shockley.htm

Shope, H. Irvin (1900-1975) (items) (chron.)

See www.meadowlarkgallery.com/ShopeShorty.htm

Short, Luke; pseudonym of Frederick D. Glidden (1908-1975) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/08/luke-short-western-story-writer.html

Shortridge, Eugene (1926-2014) (items) (chron.)

See www.legacy.com/obituaries/lcsun-news/obituary.aspx?pid=170380694

Shotwell, Ray P. (fl. 1930s-1960s); house pseudonym used by Skippy Adelman (1924-2004), S. Omar Barker (1894-1985), William R. Cox (1901-1988), Ray Cummings (1887-1957), G. T. Fleming-Roberts (1910-1968), William Campbell Gault (1910-1995), C. William Harrison (1913-1994), William Heuman (1912-1971), Gunard Hjertstedt (1904-1969), Ronal Kayser (1905-1988), Thorp McClusky (1906-1975), Alden H. Norton (1903-1987) & Simpson M. Ritter (1914-1950) (items) (chron.)

used by at least 15 different writers in as many different magazines.

Shurtleff, Bertrand L(eslie) (1897-1967) (items) (chron.)

Author of animal stories. Born in Adamsville, Rhode Island.

Sidney, [Sir] Philip (1554-1586) (items) (chron.)

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

Silverberg, Robert (1935- ); used pseudonyms Robert Arnette, Alexander Blade, E. K. Jarvis, Warren Kastel & S. M. Tenneshaw (items) (chron.)

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

Silverheels, Jay; [born Harold Jay Smith] (1912-1980) (items)

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

Simak, Clifford D(onald) (1904-1988) (items) (chron.)

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

Simmons, Jean (Merilyn) (1929-2010) (items)

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

Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870) (items) (chron.)

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

Simpich, Frederick (1878-1950) (items) (chron.)

Traveler, editor and author. Born in Urbana, Illinois; died in Washington, D.C.

Sinagra, Attilio (Gerard) (1916-2004) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/press-of-atlantic-city-attilio-sinagra/162396121

Sinatra, Frank; [i.e., Francis Albert Sinatra] (1915-1998) (items)

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

Sinclair, Bertrand W(illiam) (1881-1972) (items) (chron.)

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

Singer, Malvin (1911-1974) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Singer.html

Siringo, Charles A(ngelo) (1855-1928) (items) (chron.)

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

Sisley, Raymond G(eorge) (1892-1963) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Sisley.html

Sisty, Alice (May) (1906-1953) (items) (chron.)

See freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sistydescendents/Alice%20Sisty.htm

Sitting Bull (c1831-1890) (items)

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

Skinner, Alanson (Buck) (1886-1925) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/05/alanson-skinner-1885-1925.html

Sleath, Frederick (James) (1889-1966) (items) (chron.)

Born in Bo’ness, West Lothian, Scotland; served as a sniper officer in the 51st Highland Division in France in WWI.

Slocombe, Edwin M. (1881-1947) (items) (chron.)

No additional information available.

Slocombe, Herbert (fl. 1910s-1920s) (items) (chron.)

Born in New Haven, Connecticut.

Slyter, Evan; [working name of Leslie Evan Schlytter] (1896-1950) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/tribune-of-shelby-evan-slyter/150111702

Small, Austin J(ames) (1894-1929) (items) (chron.)

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

Small, James M.; probably a pseudonym of Dennis Small (1922-1993) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/james-m-small.html

Small, Joe Austell (1914-1994) (items) (chron.)

Writer, publisher, editor. Born in Burleson County, Texas.

Small, Sidney Herschel (1893-1958) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/sidney-herschel-small-author-traveller.html

Smilkstein, H(arry) (1911-1994) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Smilkstein.html

Smith, A(ugustus) DeHerries (1881-1945); used pseudonyms Owen Finbar & Dan O’Rourke (items) (chron.)

See montopedia.wixsite.com/montopedia/post/augustus-deherries-smith-of-bonnie-doon-and-ireland

Smith, A(lfred) T(albot) (1877-1971) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-talbot-smith.html

Smith, Al (1902-1986) (items) (chron.)

See www.lambiek.net/artists/s/smith_al.htm

Smith, Arthur D(ouglas) Howden (1887-1945) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/12/arthur-d-howden-smith-journalist.html

Smith, Edward H(enry) (1881-1927) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-times-obituary-for-ed/166631149/

Smith, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade (1844-1914); used pseudonym L. T. Meade (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._T._Meade

Smith, Garret (1876?-1954) (items) (chron.)

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

Smith, George Henry (1922-1996) (items) (chron.)

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

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