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Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950 John Clute and John Grant,Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, in ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'', pp. 832–833, Orbit, London / St Martin’s Press, New York (1997).) is an American author and editor of fantasy and horror fiction and poetry. She lives on Puget Sound with her partner, artist and editor Rhonda Boothe. Writing career Author Salmonson is the author of the ''Tomoe Gozen'' trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai Tomoe Gozen. Her other novels are ''The Swordswoman'', ''Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman'', an Asian fantasy, and a modern horror novel, ''Anthony Shriek''. Her short story collections include ''A Silver Thread of Madness''; ''Mystic Women''; ''John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head''; ''The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic''; and ''The Dark Tales''. Poetry collections include ''Horn of Tara'' and ''The Ghost Garden''. Editor Salmonson was the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Heroic Visions
''Heroic Visions'' is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in March 1983. The book collects eleven new short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Salmonson. Contents *"Introduction" (Jessica Amanda Salmonson) *"The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars" (Fritz Leiber) *"Sister Light, Sister Dark" (Jane Yolen) *"Tales Told to a Toymaker" (Phyllis Ann Karr) *"Prophecy of the Dragon" (Charles E. Karpuk) *"Before the Seas Came" (F. M. Busby) *"Thunder Mother" (Alan Dean Foster) *"Dancers in the Time-Flux" (Robert Silverberg) *"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed" (Joanna Russ) *"The Nun and the Demon" (Grania Davis) *"Vovko" (Gordon Derevanchuk) *"The Monkey's Bride" (Michael Bishop (author), Michael Bishop) References * External links Fantastic Fiction entry 1983 anthologies Fantasy anthologies Ace Books books {{1980s-fantasy-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Wood Pangborn
Georgia Wood Pangborn (1872–1955) was an American writer of novels and short stories. She is known as a writer of horror and the macabre. She was the mother of Edgar Pangborn and Mary Pangborn. Life Georgia Wood was born in Malone, New York in 1872. She graduated from Smith College and married Harry Levi Pangborn in 1894. Pangborn lived for a time on Wall Street in Manhattan, New York, and was a member of the New York literary establishment. Her work was published in ''Scribner's Magazine'', ''Harper's Monthly ''Harper's Magazine'' is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. (''Scientific American'' is older, b ...'', and '' Colliers'', among others. She died in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1955. Selected works Short stories * "The Gray Collie" (1903) * "Cara" (1914) * "The Rescue" (1912) * "The Substitute" (1914) * "The Intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent O'Sullivan (American Writer)
Vincent O'Sullivan (November 28, 1868 – July 18, 1940) was an American-born short story writer, poet and critic. Biography Born in New York City to Eugene and Christine O'Sullivan, he began his education in the New York public school system and completed it in Britain. he lived comfortably in London, travelling often to France, until in 1909 he lost his income from the family coffee business when his brother Percy made a spectacularly mistimed futures gamble at the New York Coffee Exchange. The entire family was ruined, and Vincent was destitute for the remaining years of his life. His works dealt with the morbid and decadent. He was a friend of Oscar Wilde (to whom in his disgrace he was often generous), Leonard Smithers, Aubrey Beardsley and other fin-de-siècle figures.Dziemianowicz, Stefan R. (2005). "O'Sullivan, Vincent". In: S. T. Joshi & Dziemianowicz, (eds.) ''Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia''. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, pp. 875-6 O'Sulliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitz-James O'Brien
Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; 25 October 1826 – 6 April 1862) was an Irish-American Civil War soldier, writer, and poet often cited as an early writer of science fiction. Biography O'Brien was born Michael O'Brien in Cork, Ireland and was very young when the family moved to Limerick, Ireland. He attended the University of Dublin and is believed to have been a soldier in the British army at one time. On leaving college, he went to London and in the course of four years spent his inheritance of £8,000, meanwhile editing a periodical in aid of the World's Fair of 1851. About 1852 he emigrated to the United States, in the process changing his name to Fitz James, and thenceforth he devoted his attention to literature. While he was in college he had shown an aptitude for writing verse, and two of his poems—''Loch Ine'' and ''Irish Castles''—were published in ''The Ballads of Ireland'' (1856). His earliest writings in the United States were contributed to the ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Nicholas
Anna Nicholas (born 1961, Rochester, Kent) is a British travel writer and author based in Majorca, Spain. Nicholas spent most of her childhood in London before studying Classics and English Literature at Leeds University in 1980. She worked for the charity Help the Aged, handling event PR for Princess Diana, before working for the Guinness Book of Records as an invigilator and communications director. Following a period judging bizarre world records, Nicholas started her own luxury and travel public relations agency, ANA Communications. She also became a freelance travel writer, writing for publications including the ''Financial Times'', ''The Independent'', ''Tatler'', '' Daily Express'' and ''Evening Standard''. She was invited by the explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell to join his charity, ''The Scientific Exploration Society'', as a director and trustee and thus began a long period of making tough global expeditions to remote locations. Nicholas featured in a BBC TV docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Orne Jewett
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism. Early life Sarah Orne Jewett was born in South Berwick, Maine on September 3, 1849. Her family had been residents of New England for many generations. Jewett's father, Theodore Herman Jewett, was a doctor specializing in "obstetrics and diseases of women and children," and Jewett often accompanied him on his rounds, becoming acquainted with the sights and sounds of her native land and its people. Her mother was Caroline Frances (Perry). As treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a condition that developed in her early childhood, Jewett was sent on frequent walks and through them also developed a love of nature. In later life, Jewett often visited Boston, where she was acquainted with many of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Jessopp
Augustus Jessopp (20 December 1823 – 12 February 1914) was an English cleric and writer. He spent periods of time as a schoolmaster and then later as a clergyman in Norfolk, England. He wrote regular articles for ''The Nineteenth Century'', variously on humorous, polemical and historical topics. He published scholarly work on local Norfolk history and on aspects of English literature. A good friend of the academic and ghost-story writer M. R. James, he is described by James' biographer R. W. Pfaff as "a fine specimen of the learned but somewhat eccentric country parson." Early life Born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 20 December 1823, he was the son of John Sympson Jessopp (c.1780–1851), barrister-at-law, and his wife Eliza Bridger Goodrich. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1848 and M.A. 1851). He took orders in 1848, and in the same year he married Mary Anne Margaret Cotesworth. Jessopp took on the curacy of Papworth, Cambridgeshire, where he resided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 14, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. Biography Birth and childhood Julian Hawthorne was the second child of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. He was born June 22, 1846, at 14 Mall Street in Salem, Massachusetts. It was shortly after sunrise Wineapple, Brenda. ''Hawthorne: A Life''. Random House: New York, 2003: 197. and his father wrote to his sister: His parents had difficulty choosing a name for eight months. Possible names included George, Arthur, Edward, Horace, Robert, and Lemuel. His father referred to him for some time as "Bundlebreech" or "Black Prince", due to his dark curls and red cheeks. As a boy, Julian was well-behaved and good-natured. He was raised in a loving household, later reflecting: "it was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Hildegarde Hawthorne (September 25, 1871 – December 10, 1952) was an American writer of supernatural and ghost stories, a poet and biographer. Family Born on September 25, 1871, in New York City, Hildegarde Hawthorne was the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) and eldest child of Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934) and Minnie Amelung Hawthorne. She lived in Germany, England, and Jamaica as a child. Career At age sixteen Hildegarde began selling articles to the children's magazine St. Nicholas. Her supernatural short story "Perdita," was published in the March 1897 Harper's Magazine. She wrote biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Paine, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Hawthorne also wrote travel narratives, including ''Old Seaport Towns of New England'' (1916), ''Rambles in Old College Towns'' (1917), ''Corsica: The Surprising Island'' (1926), ''Romantic Cities of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Howard Dunbar
Olivia Howard Dunbar (1873–1953) was an American short story writer, journalist and biographer, best known today for her ghost fiction. Life Dunbar was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1873. She graduated from Smith College, after which she worked in newspaper journalism. She worked for The New York World during which time she penned an exposé on Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science. As a short story writer and critic, she was published in many of the popular periodicals of her time, including '' Harper's'' and ''The Dial''. Dunbar wrote several ghost stories, as well as a 1905 essay, "The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction", defending the subgenre. Dunbar was active in the women's suffrage movement, and her work has been noted to contain feminist themes. She married the poet Ridgely Torrence in 1914. Dunbar died in 1953. Her work has been anthologized by Dorothy Scarborough and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ''Scare tactics : supernatural fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Burke (author)
Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Clapham Junction, London. His first successful publication was ''Limehouse Nights'' (1916), a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. Many of Burke's books feature the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator. "The Lamplit Hour", an incidental poem from ''Limehouse Nights'', was set to music in the United States by Arthur Penn in 1919. That same year, American film director D. W. Griffith used another tale from the collection, "The Chink and the Child" as the basis of his screenplay for the movie ''Broken Blossoms''. Griffith based his film ''Dream Street'' (1921) on Burke's "Gina of Chinatown" and "Song of the Lamp". Life Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on 29 November 1886 in Clapham Junction. Burke's father died when he was barely a few months old and he was eventually sent to live with his uncle in Poplar. At the age of ten he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
