Curated category
Pulp fiction writers
- Raymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler arrived in Chicago on the 23rd of July 1888. His mother Florence Dart was originally from Ireland, and his father Maurice Benjamin…
- Philip K. DickPhilip Kindred Dick was born on the 16th of December 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. He arrived six weeks prematurely alongside his twin sister Jane Charlotte…
- Poul AndersonPoul William Anderson arrived in the world on the 25th of November 1926. He was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania to parents who had emigrated from Denmark.
- Edgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice Burroughs was born on the 1st of September 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs and his wife Mary…
- H. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft was born on the 20th of August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. His father Winfield Scott Lovecraft suffered a psychotic episode…
- Arthur C. ClarkeArthur Charles Clarke was born on the 16th of December 1917 in Minehead, Somerset. He grew up nearby at Bishops Lydeard where he lived on a farm.
- L. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was born on the 27th of November 1907 in New York City. He grew up as one of three sons to Lyon de Camp, a businessman dealing in real…
- Lin CarterLinwood Vrooman Carter stood in the infantry during the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. He served as a soldier before he ever became a professional author.
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- Michael MoorcockMichael John Moorcock arrived in Mitcham, Surrey on the 18th of December 1939. The landscape of London would later shape his fiction, particularly areas like…
- Robert E. HowardRobert E. Howard was born on the 22nd of January 1906 in Peaster, Texas. His father worked as a traveling country physician while his mother raised him in a…
- Jack VanceJohn Holbrook Vance arrived in the world on the 28th of August 1916. His family lived in a large house on Filbert Street in San Francisco during his early…
- A. MerrittAbraham Grace Merritt was born on the 20th of January 1884 in Beverly, New Jersey. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894.
- Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber Jr. entered the world on the 24th of December 1910, in Chicago, Illinois. He was born to actors Fritz Leiber and Virginia Bronson Leiber.