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Schulz, Robert E(mil) (1928-1978) (art)
Born in Cliffside Park, New Jersey; died in Stockholm, New Jersey. Note: one source lists his place of birth as Weehawken, New Jersey.


Schuyler, Remington (1884-1955) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Schuyler.html


Scism, Alvin N. (1916-2012) (stories)
See obituaries.expressionstributes.com/?m=1922235785


Scobee, Barry (1885-1977) (stories)
Writer, journalist, Texas historian. Born Albert Barry Scobee in Pollock, Missouri; lived in Jefferson Davis County, Texas.


Scott, Earl W. (fl. 1920s-1940s) (stories)
American poet.


Scott, H(arold) Winfield (1897-1977) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Scott,HW.html


Scott, J(ohn) W(alter, Jr.) (1907-1987) (art)
See pulpartists.com/ScottJW.html


Scott, Lily K. (1913-2005) (stories)
Wife of pulp writer A. Leslie Scott and mother of thriller writer Justin Scott.


Scott, R(eginald) T(homas) M(aitland) (1882-1966) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/scott_r_t_m


Scott, R(obert) T(homas) Maitland (1909-1945) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/scott_r_t_m


Scott, [Sir] Walter (1771-1832) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott


Searles, Lin J. [i.e., Lynn J. Searles] (1914-1972) (stories)
See nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv31411


Sedley, [Sir] Charles (, 5th Baronet) (1639-1701) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Sedley,_5th_Baronet


Seifert, Shirley (Louise) (1888-1971) (stories)
Born in St. Peters, Missouri; educated at Washington University; contributed fiction to many magazines.


Seltzer, Charles Alden (1875-1942) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alden_Seltzer


Service, Robert W(illiam) (1874-1958) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/service_robert_w


Seton, Ernest Thompson [born Ernest Evan Thompson] (1860-1946) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thompson_Seton


Sewell, Amos (F.) (1901-1983) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Sewell.html


Shafer, Don(ald) Cameron (1881-?) (stories)
Journalist and novelist. Perhaps from New York.


Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare


Shannon, Mary (fl. 1920s-1940s) (stories)
Teacher and writer. Born in British Columbia, Canada.


Shannon, Robert Terry (1895-1950) (stories)
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.


Sharp, Douglas (Donald) (1949-2010) (stories)
See www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?n=douglas-sharp&pid=146637764


Sharp, Drury D(ubose) (fl. 1880s-1960s) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sharp_drury_d


Shaw, [Captain] Frank H(ubert) (1878-1960) (stories)
English sea captain. Born in Yorkshire, England. Brother of Stanley Gordon Shaw.


Shaw, (Frederick) Stanley (1870-1935) (stories) (assoc.)
Born and died in Boston; A physician in general practice.


Shaw, Stanley Gordon (1884-1938) (stories)
Brother of Frank H(ubert) Shaw.


Shedd, George C(lifford) (1877-1937) (stories)
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.


Sheldon, Walter J(ames) (1917-1996) (stories)
Writer of mysteries, editor. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; lived in Bellingham, Washington.


Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley


Shelton, Reine Hafley (1902-1979) (stories)
See www.cowgirl.net/portfolios/reine-hafley-shelton


Shepherd, J(oy) Clinton (1888-1975) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Shepherd.html


Shippey, (Henry) Lee (1884-1969) (stories)
Born in Memphis, Tennessee.


Shirley, Florence Henderson (1883-1934) (stories)
Writer, editor of journal The Editor. Born in New York City; died in Newark, New Jersey.


Shirley, Glenn (Deane) (1916- ) (stories)
Policeman turned historian and western writer. Born in Payne County, Oklahoma; lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma.


Shockley, W(illiam) M. (1949- ) (stories)
See www.ragtime.nu/shockley.htm


Shope, H. Irvin (1900-1975) (stories) (art)
See www.meadowlarkgallery.com/ShopeShorty.htm


Short, Luke; pseudonym of Frederick D. Glidden (1908-1975) (stories)
See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/08/luke-short-western-story-writer.html


Shortridge, Eugene (1926-2014) (art)
See www.legacy.com/obituaries/lcsun-news/obituary.aspx?pid=170380694


Shotwell, Ray P.; house pseudonym (fl. 1930s-1960s) (stories)
used by at least 15 different writers in as many different magazines.


Shurtleff, Bertrand L(eslie) (1897-1967) (stories)
Author of animal stories. Born in Adamsville, Rhode Island.


Sidney, [Sir] Philip (1554-1586) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sidney


Silverberg, Robert (1935- ) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg


Simak, Clifford D(onald) (1904-1988) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_clifford_d


Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gilmore_Simms


Simpich, Frederick (1878-1950) (stories)
Traveler, editor and author. Born in Urbana, Illinois; died in Washington, D.C.


Sinclair, Bertrand W(illiam) [born William Brown Sinclair] (1881-1972) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_William_Sinclair


Singer, Malvin (1911-1974) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Singer.html


Siringo, Charles A(ngelo) (1855-1928) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Siringo


Sisley, Raymond G(eorge) (1892-1963) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Sisley.html


Sisty, Alice (May) (1906-1953) (stories) (assoc.)
See freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/˜sistydescendents/Alice%20Sisty.htm


Skinner, Alanson (Buck) (1886-1925) (stories)
Noted anthropologist. Born in Buffalo, New York; died near Tokio, North Dakota.


Sleath, Frederick (James) (1889-1966) (stories)
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) (stories)
No additional information available.


Slocombe, Herbert (fl. 1910s-1920s) (stories)
Born in New Haven, Connecticut.


Small, Austin J(ames) (1894-1929) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/small_austin_j


Small, James M.; probably a pseudonym of Dennis Small (1922-1993) (stories)
See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/james-m-small.html


Small, Joe Austell (1914-1994) (stories)
Writer, publisher, editor. Born in Burleson County, Texas.


Small, Sidney Herschel (1893-1958) (stories)
See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/sidney-herschel-small-author-traveller.html


Smilkstein, H(arry) (1911-1994) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Smilkstein.html


Smith, A(ugustus) DeHerries (1881-1945) (stories) (assoc.)
Writer. Born in Cork, Ireland; lived in Alberta, Canada.


Smith, Arthur D(ouglas) Howden (1887-1945) (stories)
See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/12/arthur-d-howden-smith-journalist.html


Smith, Garret (1876?-1954) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_garret


Smith, George Henry (1922-1996) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_george_h


Smith, George O(liver) (1911-1981) (stories)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_george_o


Smith, Horace (Horatio) (1779-1849) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Smith_(poet)


Smith, Leonard K(ingsley) (1876-1955) (stories)
Clergyman and author. Born in Boston, Massachusetts; died in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


Smith, Malcolm H. (1910-1966) (art)
See pulpartists.com/SmithM.html


Smith, Martin Ryerson (1907-2003) (stories)
Born in New York City; writer for numerous radio and TV network shows; pulp magazine writer.


Smith, Ralph Crosby (1907-1962) (art)
See pulpartists.com/SmithR.html


Smith, Wallace (1888-1937) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Smith_(illustrator)


Smith, William Bryan [born William Bryan Schmidt] (1897-1995) (art)
See www.pulpartists.com/SmithWB.html


Sneddon, Robert W(illiam) (1880-1944) (stories)
Writer of mystery stories. Born in Beith, Scotland; educated at Glasgow University; contributed over 400 short stories to American and European magazines; author of several successful vaudeville sketches; died in New York City.


Snow, Charles H(orace) (1877-1967) (stories)
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) (stories)
Born in Connecticut; New York City newspaperman, short story writer.


Soare, William F(ulton) (1896-1940) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Soare.html


Soglow, Otto (1900-1975) (stories) (art)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Soglow


Sokoli, Joseph [i.e., Joseph Szokoli] (1913-1981) (stories) (art) (assoc.)
See pulpartists.com/Szokoli.html


Solomons, Theodore Seixas (fl. 1910s-1930s) (stories)
Traveller and writer. Born in San Francisco, California.


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.


Spalding, Susan Marr (1841-1908) (stories)
See en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Susan_Marr_Spalding


Spearman, Frank H(amilton) (1859-1937) (stories)
Born in Buffalo, N.Y.; educated at Lawrence College, Notre Dame and Loyola University. While he was a bank president in Nebraska, he was also a prolific writer of westerns, especially fiction and non-fiction on railways.


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.


Spicer, Betty Coe [born Betty Helena Coe] (1913-1994) (stories)
Daughter of Charles Francis Coe.


Spofford, Harriet (Elizabeth) Prescott (1835-1921) (stories)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Elizabeth_Prescott_Spofford


Spooner, (Albert) Clinton (, Jr.) (1913-1973) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Spooner.html


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, Thomas Grant (1873-?) (stories)
Author and playwright. Born in Sacramento, California.


Squires, C(harles) Clyde (1883-1970) (art)
See pulpartists.com/Squires.html



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