Allen J. Hubin (born March 5, 1936, in
Crosby, Minnesota) is an American historian of crime fiction, a literary critic and bibliographer of crime fiction.
Biography
Hubin studied at
Wheaton College Wheaton College may refer to:
* Wheaton College (Illinois), a private Christian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois
* Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college in Norton, Massachus ...
and the
University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1961.
A passionate collector of detective literature, Hubin founded the first American magazine devoted to the genre, ''The Armchair Detective'', in 1967. The following year, he succeeded the late
Anthony Boucher as author of the column “Criminals at Large," which appeared weekly in ''The New York Times Book Review''. He worked there until 1971 and by 1972 was reviewer for the ''
Star Tribune
The ''Star Tribune'' is the largest newspaper in Minnesota. It originated as the ''Minneapolis Tribune'' in 1867 and the competing ''Minneapolis Daily Star'' in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolida ...
''.
Hubin's personal library of crime novels was of assistance to Ordean Hagen in assembling the first bibliography of English-language crime fiction, ''Who Done It'' in 1969. Hubin wrote the introduction.
For several years, he collected the best short stories of the year in anthologies published under the title ''Best Detective Stories of the Year'' .
His best-known work is the production of ''The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749-1975'', published in 1979 by University Extension,
University of California, San Diego in Cooperation with Publisher's Inc., Del Mar, California, and revised and re-released as ''Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography.'' The bibliography lists all publications in the genre in English. Updates incorporating places, films, screenwriters and directors were made in the ''1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography'' and published by Garland in 1988 before ''Crime Fiction II: A Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-1990'' came out in 1994 in two volumes.
Bibliography
* ''Best of the Best Detective Stories: 25th Anniversary Collection'' (1971)
* ''The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749-1975'' (1979)
* ''Armchair Detective'' (1981)
* ''Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography'' (1983)
* ''The Armchair Detective: The First Ten Years'' (1986)
* ''1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction'' (1988)
* ''Crime Fiction II: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-1990'' (1994)
References
External links
*
My Life of Crime Fiction", Allen J. Hubin, in ''Mystery Scene''Allen J. Hubin, ''Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-2000'' Addenda to the 2015 Revised Edition
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American literary historians
American bibliographers
1936 births
Living people
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni