The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index
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- Wiggins, Walt(on Wray) (1924- ) (stories)
- Writer and photographer. Born and lives in Roswell, New Mexico.
- Wilbur, Lawrence N(elson) (1897-1988) (art)
- See oldprintgallery.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/lawrence-nelson-wilbur-1897-1988/
- Wilcox, Don [i.e., Cleo Eldon Wilcox] (1905-2000) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilcox_don
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox
- Wilcox, J(ames) M(ilton) (1895-1958) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Wilcox.html
- Wilde, Oscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) (1854-1900) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
- Wilford, L(oran) F(rederick) (1893-1972) (art)
- Born in Wamego, Kansas; died in Stamford, Connecticut (?).
- Wilkinson, Lupton A(llemong) (1897-?) (stories)
- See mppda.flinders.edu.au/people/662
- Williams, Alan (1890-?) (stories)
- An Alan Williams who was a playwright and theater personage died in Los Angeles, California, in 1945. It may not have been this man.
- Williams, Ben Ames (1889-1953) (stories)
- Born in Macon, Mississippi; educated at Dartmouth; lived in Massachusetts and died in Brookline.
- Williams, Charles (Walter Stansby) (1886-1945) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/williams_charles
- Williams, G(eorge) H(oward) (1912-2011) (stories)
- See www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/in_memory/1940/howardwilliams
- Williams, Hank (1923-1953) (stories) (assoc.)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams
- Williams, (Dorothy) Jeanne (1930- ) (stories)
- See www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00252/tsw-00252.html
- Williams, (Charles) Michael (1877-1950) (stories)
- See www.wikitree.com/wiki/Williams-9657
- Williams, Robert Moore (1907-1977) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/williams_robert_moore
- Willkie, Wendell L(ewis) (1892-1944) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Willkie
- Willsie, Honoré [i.e., Honoré McCue Willsie Morrow] (1880-1940) (stories)
- See data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/honore-willsie-morrow
- Wilsky, Jim (fl. 2010s) (stories)
- See shotgunhoney.net/authors/jim-wilsky
- Wilson, Cherry [i.e., Rosemary J. “Cherry Rose” Wilson, née Burdick] (1893-1976) (stories)
- See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/cherry-wilson-western-author.html
- Wilson, (John) Kirk (1912-1971) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Wilson.html
- Wilson, Steve (1943- ) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilson_steve
- Wilstach, John (Hudnall) (1890-1951) (stories)
- Born in Oakland, California, son of a former executive in the Hays Office (overseers of Hollywood censorship); prolific pulp author.
- Wiltsey, Norman B. (fl. 1940s-1960s) (stories)
- Expert on Indians of North America.
- Winchell, (Nathaniel) Prentice (Jr.) (1895-1976) (stories)
- Born in Evanston, Illinois; died in Tallahassee, Florida; worked for an advertising agency, then newspaper man; editor of trade publications, journalism lecturer;
wrote and produced over 500 radio mystery shows, wrote for films and TV; published some 400 magazine detective stories, including 40 about Fire Marshal Ben Pedley, besides those books listed below.
- Windas, Cedric W(ilford) (1888-1966) (stories) (art)
- Artist, writer, expert on naval customs and vocabulary. Born in Richmond, Victoria, Australia; came to the United States in 1913; died in Hermosa Beach, California.
- Winslow, Horatio (Gates) (1882-1972) (stories)
- See prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=1087388
- Winter, William West (1881-1940) (stories)
- Novelist and short story writer. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana; died in Rutland, Massachusetts.
- Winterbotham, R(ussell) R(obert) (1904-1971) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winterbotham_russ
- Wire, H(arold) C(hanning) (1899-1987) (stories)
- Born in California, lived there most of life; author of some 300 magazine stories.
- Wither, George (1588-1667) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wither
- Wittmack, Edgar Franklin (1894-1956) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Wittmack.html
- Witton, Frederick (William, Jr.) (1897-1985) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Witton.html
- Witwer, Harry Charles (1880-1929) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._C._Witwer
- Wodehouse, [Sir] P(elham) G(renville) (1881-1975) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse
- Wollheim, Donald A(llen) (1914-1990) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wollheim_donald_a
- Wolson, Morton (1913-2003) (stories)
- Living in New York. Author of many pulp detective stories in the 1940s as Peter Paige.
- Wood, Clement (1888-1950) (stories)
- Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; educated at University of Alabama and Yale Law School; lawyer, educator, poet and novelist; lived in N.Y.
Husband of Gloria Goddard.
- Wood, Kerry [i.e., Edgar Allardyce “Kerry” Wood] (1907-1998) (stories)
- See www.goodreads.com/author/show/1056948.Kerry_Wood
- Wood, (Clarence) Lawson (1878-1957) (art)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_Wood
- Wood, Stanley L(lewellyn) (1867-1928) (art)
- See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/stanley-l-wood.html
- Wood, Wally [i.e., Wallace Allan Wood] (1927-1981) (stories) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Wood.html
- Wood, Walter (1866-1961) (stories)
- Born in Bradford, England; educated in England and abroad; lived in Sussex.
- Wood, William R. D. (1966- ) (stories)
- See www.williamrdwood.com
- Woodward, Arthur (1898-1986) (stories)
- Western writer, expert on Navajo silversmithing; resident in Los Angeles, California. Died in Los Angeles, California.
Not to be confused with the advertising man (1875?-1934); and not to be confused with antiquarian Arthur Frank Woodward (1883-1973) or geologist and “discoverer” of the “Piltdown Man” Arthur Smith Woodward (1864-1944).
- Woodworth, Douglas H. (1894?-1940) (stories)
- Telegraph operator, died in Eau Claire, WI.
- Woolrich, Cornell [i.e., Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich] (1903-1968) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich
- Wooton, Edwin (Littler) (1855-1933) (stories)
- A journalist.
- Wormser, Richard (Edward) (1908-1977) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wormser_richard
- Worts, George F(rank) (1892-1967) (stories)
- Born in Toledo; radio operator turned freelance writer in Hawaii; screenwriter.
- Wrenn, Charles L(ewis) (1880-1952) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Wren.html
- Wright, Sewell Peaslee (1897-1970) (stories)
- Author, journalist, advertising writer, radio operator. Born in Butler, Pennsylvania.
- Wyn, A(aron) A(rthur) [born Aaron Weinstein] (1898-1967) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Wyn
- Yarnell, Duane (Alvin) (1914-1996) (stories)
- Has also done a biography and a mystery novel.
- Yates, Edmund (Hodgson) (1831-1894) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Yates
- Yore, Clem(ent) (1875-1936) (stories) (assoc.)
- Born in St. Louis, Missouri; educated at Washington University Law School; contributor of fiction to numerous magazines; died in Estes Park, Colorado; variously a Texas
Ranger, cowpuncher, stage driver, gold prospector, lawyer, journalist, soldier in Spanish-American War, and poet; author of more than 600 short stories and 20 novels; died in Estes Park, Colorado.
- Young, Bob (fl. 1940s-1960s) (stories)
- Perhaps writer Robert Franklin Young (1915-1986)
- Young, Edgar (1885-?) (stories)
- Writer, travelled through Central America. Not to be confused with the general solicitor for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad (1883?-1941).
- Young, Gordon (Raymond) (1886-1948) (stories)
- See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/gordon-ray-young-author-cowboy.html
- Young, John Richard (fl. 1940s-1950s) (stories)
- Author of books for young readers. Born in Wisconsin.
- Zagat, Arthur Leo (1895-1949) (stories)
- See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/zagat_arthur_leo
- Zimmermann, (Emilie) Irene (1907-1967) (stories)
- See pulpartists.com/Zimmerman.html
- Zirm, Rudolph W(ilhelm) (1894-1952) (art)
- See pulpartists.com/Zirm.html
- Zschokke, (Johann) Heinrich (Daniel) (1771-1848) (stories)
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Zschokke
- Zumpe, Lee Clark (fl. 1990s-2010s) (stories)
- See www.leeclarkzumpe.com
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