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- Snow, Walter (1905-1973) (stories)
- Born in Connecticut; New York City newspaperman, short story writer.
- Snyder, George (1937- ) (stories)
- Retired as Senior Editor, Technical Publications, Boeing Co.
- Soare, William F(ulton) (1896-1940) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Soare.html
- Soares, L. L. (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories) (assoc.)
- See khpbooks.com/llsoares/about-me
- Soave, Juliana (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories) (assoc.)
- See www.julisnowwhite.com
- Sobieck, Benjamin (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See www.crimefictionbook.com
- Sobol, Donald J. (1924-2012) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Sobol
- Sohl, Jerry [i.e., Gerald Allan Sohl, Sr.] (1913-2002) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sohl_jerry
- Sokoli, Joseph [i.e., Joseph Szokoli] (1913-1981) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Szokoli.html
- Soldan, William R. (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See www.emptymirrorbooks.com/author/williamrsoldan
- Sollitt, Max (1927- ) (stories)
- See sidharta.com/author/Max_Sollitt
- Solomons, Theodore Seixas (fl. 1910s-1930s) (stories)
- Traveller and writer. Born in San Francisco, California.
- Solovioff, Nicholas (1927-1994) (art)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Solovioff
- Somerfield, Thomas (1876-1937) (art)
- See bearalley.blogspot.com/2019/03/thomas-somerfield.html
- Somerlott, Robert (1928-2001) (stories)
- Born in U.S., has lived mostly abroad, more recently in Mexico; lecturer in anthropology turned writer of books, short stories and essays.
- Somervell, Brehon B(urke) (1892-1955) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brehon_B._Somervell
- Somerville, Charles (Cecil Lee D’Montral) (1876-1931) (stories)
- Born in New Orleans of Creole descent; magazine writer, New York City reporter.
- Sonderborg, Frank (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See franksonderborg.blogspot.co.uk
- Sorrentino, Fernando (1942- ) (stories)
- Born in Buenos Aires.
- Soutar, (Edward) Andrew (1879-1941) (stories)
- Born Edward Andrew Stagg in Wiltshire; married Elspeth Soutar Swinton as Stagg in 1911; but then adopted the last name Soutar; death in Cornwall registered as Edward Andrew Soutar.
- South, Marshal (1889-1948) (stories)
- 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.
- Southerland, Katharine Virden (1892-1955) (stories)
- Born in Bayonne, New Jersey; educated in Dover, Delaware; advertising copy writer for Crowell Publishing Company of New York until marriage in 1923; died in Wilmington, Delaware.
- Southon, Arthur E(ustace) (1887-1964) (stories)
- Born in London; educated at Methodist College, Surrey; Methodist Minister, living in Somerset in the 1930s.
- Souza, Joseph (fl. 2010s) (stories) (assoc.)
- See www.josephsouza.net
- Spalding, [Rev.] Samuel C(harles) (1878-1962) (stories)
- Born in Leavenworth, Kansas; educated at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania; founder of Chicago publishing company in 1921.
- Spare, Austin Osman (1886-1956) (art)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Osman_Spare
- Sparrow, Gerald (1903-?) (stories)
- See paradise-mysteries.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/forgotten-books-crime-for-connoiseur.html
- Sparrow, Jeff (1969- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sparrow
- Spears, Raymond S(miley) (1876-1950) (stories)
- Award-winning author, expert woodsman, journalist; popular for his tales of the wilderness. Born in Bellevue, Ohio; died in Inglewood, California.
- Spector, Joel (fl. 1990s-2010s) (stories) (art)
- See www.joelspector.com
- Speechly, Marc Geoffrey (1960- ) (stories)
- Writer/performer for many years, appearing on TV and creating and performing his own BBC Radio 2 series “Whining for England.”
- Speegle, Darren (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories)
- See www.goodreads.com/author/show/1126527.Darren_Speegle
- Spence, (John) Hartzell (1908-2001) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartzell_Spence
- Spence, (James) Lewis (Thomas Chalmers) (1874-1955) (stories)
- Born in Broughton Ferry, England; educated at Edinburgh University; author and editor; lived in Edinburgh.
- Spencer, Charles (1955- ) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spencer_(journalist)
- Spencer, Matt (fl. 1990s-2010s) (stories)
- See www.goodreads.com/author/show/643844.Matt_Spencer
- Speyer, Edward (1884-?) (stories)
- Journalist. Not to be confused with the friend of Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner (1841-1934).
- Spicer, Betty Coe [born Betty Helena Coe] (1913-1994) (stories)
- Daughter of Charles Francis Coe.
- Spillane, Mickey [i.e., Frank Morrison Spillane] (1918-2006) (stories) (assoc.)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Spillane
- Spindler, Erica (1957- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Spindler
- Spinell, Joe [born Joseph J. Spagnuolo] (1936-1989) (stories) (assoc.)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Spinell
- Spinelli, (Alex) Laurence [born Alessandro Lorenzo Spinelli] (1892-1983) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Spinelli.html
- Spooner, Luke (A.) (fl. 2010s) (art)
- See www.carrionhouse.com
- Sprague, Ricky (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See rickysprague.com
- Sprang, Richard W(illiam) (1915-2000) (stories) (art)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Sprang
- Spring, Agnes Wright [born Agnes Rebecca Wright] (1894-1988) (stories)
- See eadsrv.denverlibrary.org/sdx/pl/doc-tdm.xsp?id=WH1163_d0e35&fmt=text&base=fa
- Springer, Nancy (Connor) (1948- ) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Springer
- Sproule, Dale L. (fl. 1980s-2010s) (stories)
- See dlsproule.blogspot.co.uk
- St. Denis, Madelon (1884-?) (stories)
- Born in Massachusetts.
- St. Vrain, Ray; pseudonym of John Louis Berry (fl. 1900s-1930s) (stories)
- Dime novelist William Henry Manning (1852-1929) sometimes used the pseudonym E. L. St. Vrain, and it is dimly possible that this is one of Manning’s pseudonyms.
- Stacey, (Harold Charles) Barnard (1889-1973) (stories)
- Born in London; died in Newton Abbot, Devonshire.
- Stack, Gilbert M. (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories)
- See gilbertstack.webs.com/aboutme.htm
- Stack, Gordon (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See gordonstackfiction.com
- Stackpool, Walter (1915-1988) (art)
- See www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A51372
- Stacpoole, H(enry) de Vere (1863-1951) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stacpoole_h_de_vere
- Staggs, Earl (fl. 1990s-2010s) (stories) (assoc.)
- See earlwstaggs.wordpress.com
- Stahr, Paul (Carl, Jr.) (1883-1953) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Stahr.html
- Stajic, Marina (fl. 1970s-2010s) (stories) (assoc.)
- See www.nyc.gov/html/ocme/downloads/pdf/Fbio/Marina%20Stajic.pdf
- Stallings, Josh (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See joshstallings.net
- Stamaty, Stanley (1916-1979) (stories)
- See www.nytimes.com/1979/09/15/archives/stanley-stamaty-an-illustrator-for-wellknown-publications-63.html?_r=0
- Stanford, Don(ald Kent) (1918-1992) (stories)
- Writer. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee; lived in Ontario, Canada.
- Stanley, [Sir] Henry M(orton) [born John Rowlands] (1841-1904) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley
- Stanley, Kristina (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories)
- See kristinastanley.com
- Stanley, Marian McMahon (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See www.marianmcmahonstanley.com
- Stanley, Robert (Charles, Jr.) (1918-1996) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Stanley.html
- Stanton, Paul; pseudonym of David Beaty (1919-1999) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stanton_paul
- Stanton, Will(iam Frank) (1918-1996) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Stanton_(author)
- Stanworth, Michelle (1951- ) (stories)
- Born in Canada; professor in Cambridge Univ.
- Stapleton, Douglas (1904-1974) (stories)
- Born in Virginia; died in La Habra, California; same dates and identical social security number also given for Samuel Granville Staples!.
- Starr, B. J. (fl. 1950s-1970s) (stories)
- Photographer. Lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico and California.
- Starzl, R(oman) F(rederick) (1899-1976) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/starzl_r_f
- Stasio, Marilyn (fl. 1970s-2010s) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Stasio
- Stateham, B. R. (fl. 1980s-2010s) (stories)
- See noirtaketurner-frank.blogspot.co.uk
- Staub, Wendy Corsi (1964- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- See wendycorsistaub.com/bio.html
- Steadman, Broeck [i.e., Evan Ten broeck Steadman] (1951- ) (art)
- See etsteadman.com
- Stearns, Myron Morris (1884-1963) (stories)
- Author and editor. Born in Hartford, Connecticut; lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- Stebbings, Eugene (1875-?) (stories)
- From Chicago, Illinois.
- Steber, A. R.; house pseudonym (fl. 1940s) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/steber_a_r
- Steele, Wilbur Daniel (1886-1970) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Daniel_Steele
- Steemers, Nicolet (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories)
- See www.nicoletsteemers.nl
- Steiger, Brad; pseudonym of Eugene E. Olson (1936-2018) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Steiger
- Stein, Harvé (1904-1996) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Stein,Harve.html
- Stein, Modest [born Modest Aronstam] (1871-1958) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Stein.html
- Steinberg, Hank (1969- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Steinberg
- Steiskal, Erika (fl. 2010s) (art)
- See www.erikasteiskal.com
- Stephenson, Carl (1893-?) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Stephenson_(author)
- Stern, G(ladys) B(ronwyn) [born Gladys Bertha Stern; Mrs. Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth] (1890-1973) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bronwyn_Stern
- Stern, Richard Martin (1915-2001) (stories)
- Author of mystery and suspense novels. Born in Fresno, California; lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Sterzinger, Ann (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories)
- See fineillstartagoddamnblog.blogspot.co.uk
- Stevens, Chevy; pseudonym of Rene Unischewski (c1973- ) (stories) (assoc.)
- See www.chevystevens.com
- Stevens, Frances Moyer Ross (1895-1948) (stories)
- Advertising copywriter in Cincinnati and Detroit.
- Stevens, James (Floyd) (1892-1971) (stories)
- 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).
- Stevens, Jan (B.) (fl. 2000s-2010s) (stories)
- See memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/J.B._Stevens
- Stevens, Mark (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See www.writermarkstevens.com
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