Below is a list of pulp fiction writers about whom I know nothing, if you can help me with any information I would be grateful and will quote you as appropriate:
Mervyn Andrews (
8 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Conway, John (1 work);
del Mar, Justin (3 works);
Hunt, Roger (3 works);
Pasquani, Selene (1 work) ] Gender: Male
E.J. Bailey (
1 work by ) [Writing under the name Paul Crane] Gender: Male
Gloria Bevan [aka Fiona Murray] (
2 works by ) Born: 20 Jul 1911 Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Gender: FemaleExpatriate Departed from Australia: ca.1914 Biography: Although born in Australia, the daughter of a mining engineer in Kalgoorlie, Murray moved to New Zealand with her family when just three. After leaving school she worked as a typist and her writing career did not begin until she was well into her fifties. After publishing a couple of detective novels, she became a prolific writer of romance fiction, mainly as Gloria Bevan (her married name). Many of her works are set in New Zealand and the Pacific - as far as is known only Gold Coast Affair has an Australian setting. She has returned to the land of her birth on at least one occasion and admits to having an affection for Australia.
David Boutland (
17 works by ) ['David Rome' is the pseudonym under which David Boutland wrote science fiction and popular fiction. From the mid-1960s to mid-1970s he wrote a number of novels published by Sydney paperback fiction publisher Horwitz, as well as one award-winning science fiction novel. He also contributed to British science fiction magazines. After this he turned to script writing for Australian television, pursuing this for about thirty years. Born: 1938 United Kingdom (UK)] Gender: Male Arrived in Australia: 1952
Kenneth Cook (
43 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Hale, Alan (2 works);
Duffy, John (1 work) ] Born: 1929 Sydney, New South Wales Died: 1987 Gender: Male Lester Cotton [Uses the writing name Silk Stafford] Note: 'Stafford Silk' appears in the List of Australian Writers due to an appearance in Flanagan's The Australian Vintage Paperback Guide. His only book appears to be The Bogle Mystery, his account of the unsolved deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler. He was one of the guests at the party where Bogle and Chandler were last seen alive. 'Stafford Silk' was a pseudonym for Lester Cotton, a Sydney Morning Herald journalist with an interest in unsolved murder cases.
Rena Cross (
20 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Crane, Rene (1 work);
Dee, Rebecca (2 works);
Duffy, John (2 works);
James, Christine (1 work);
Miller, Karen (10 works);
Tolhurst, Geoffrey (3 works) ] Gender: Female
Peter Draffin (
2 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Spenser, Julian ] Gender: Male
Des R Dunn (
400 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Iverson, Brett (3 works);
Culp, Morgan;
Cole, Sheldon B. (3 works);
Brady, Adam (3 works);
Dunn, D. R. (1 work);
Cregan, Matt (6 works);
Halliday, Gunn (40 works);
Denver, Shad (52 works);
'Kent, Larry' (285 works);
Renwick, Walt (4 works) ] Born: 1930 [Queensland] Gender: Male
David Ellis (
6 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Duffy, John (2 works);
Dunn, John (1 work)] Gender: Male M Fallon (
15 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Mallory, Lee (15 works);
Shannon, Cole ] Gender: Male
R J Fittock (
76 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Beaumont, Walt (47 works);
Donovan, Lon;
McCabe, Cord (29 works) ] Gender: Male
Roger Green (
127 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Brecker, Cord (4 works);
Shelton, Cole (52 works);
Hollinger, Matt (3 works);
Houston, Brad (2 works);
McCabe, Sundown (34 works);
Rogers, Lesley (4 works);
Taggart, Ben (28 works);
Taggert, Ben ] Born: 10 Mar 1938 Brighton, East Sussex, England Gender: Male Arrived in Australia: 1950
Frank S Greenop (
122 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Beaumont, Jess (2 works);
Dudgeon, Robert (38 works);
Dundee, Walt (3 works);
Martin, Hart E. (54 works);
Thorpe, Lee (5 works) ] Born: 12 Mar 1913 London, England Died: Jun 1975 Balgowlah, New South Wales Gender: Male Arrived in Australia: ca.1922
R.G. Haill (
18 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Cooper, Janie (6 works);
Hodges, Shirley M.;
Satane, R. P.;
Spring, Rachel ] Born: 1938 Gender: Male
Carlene Hardy [Also writes as:
Franklin, Roger (2 works);
French, Rosalind (4 works);
Hansberry, Carlene (1 work);
Thomas, Joanna;
Slater, John (1 work) ] Gender: Female
Don Haring [Also writes as:
'Kent, Larry' (285 works);
Anthony, Clay (13 works);
Bradford, Sam (1 work);
Langley, Ward (3 works);
Anthony, Max (1 work) ] Born: [United States of America (USA)] Died: [198-] Gender: Male
J.W. Heming (
84 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Barton, Tex (12 works);
De Wreder, Paul (4 works);
Winton, Val (3 works);
King, Wal (4 works);
Winton, Valerie (1 work);
Master-Sarg (1 work);
Ellsworth, C. W. (3 works) ] John Winton Heming was the author of some 50 pulp novelettes. He published in different genres and under a variety of names and pseudonyms. Under his real name he wrote mysteries, general fiction and children's books; as the author of science fiction, westerns and adventure stories he used his own name as well as pseudonyms such as 'Tex Barton' or 'Val Winton' or 'Paul de Wreder'. Many of his works were published by Currawong Press in their series
Currawong Novels. The series included a variety of fiction such as mystery, romance and western titles. Using the slogan on their back page, 'You Can't Go Wrong with a Currawong', the series consisted of short novelettes of between 48-80 pages in length. Heming also wrote a book on speechmaking, and published Etiquette for All Occasions (1953) and What Every Man Should Know (1953). Born: 1900 Died: 9 Apr 1953 Gender: Male
Keith Hetherington (
385 works by all writing names ) Also writes as:
Keith, James (7 works);
Heming, Charles E.;
Waring, Brett (127 works);
Hamilton, Kirk (188 works);
Conway, Keith (2 works);
Colt, Johnny (2 works);
Douglas, Jake (11 works);
Dekker, Carl (41 works) Born: 14 Sep 1929 Australia Gender: Male
A. Hitchens (
1 work by ) [Writing under the name of Royce Hilton. Austlit note: Royce Hilton is the pseudonym for an Australian prisoner.]
Philip Holden (
48 works by all writing names ) (a.k.a. Duxbury, John Alan ) [Also writes as:
Chandler, Lee (21 works);
McAllister, Cord (16 works);
P. H. (?);
Holden, Lee (8 works) ] Born: 1937 Wales (UK) Died: 15 Jan 2005 New Zealand Gender: Male Arrived in Australia: 1953
Dianne Irwin (
2 works by ) [Using the writing name Joanne Joyce] Gender: Female
M Judge (
2 works by ) [aka Ward Kestral] Gender: Male
Kay Kearney (
1 work by )
Jim Kent (
105 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Kemp, Julian;
Banner, Cleve (11 works);
Docker, Thane (23 works) ] Gender: Male
Roberta Leiberman (
2 works by ) [Gender: Female]
W. Lynch (
51 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Borden, Cole (5 works);
Gorman, Mark (14 works);
Saunders, Wilt (10 works);
Logan, Dan (17 works) ] Gender: Male
Ken Macauley (
17 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Hann, Donald (12 works);
Lesley, Paul (1 work);
Vance, Ray (1 work) ] Gender: Male
Marcia McEwan (
21 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Barrett, Charles (1 work);
Scott, James (4 works);
Seven, John;
Severn, Jean Paul (1 work);
Wayne, Marcia (1 work);
Wayne, Marsha (3 works);
Severn, John (1 work) ] Gender: Female
Len Meares (a.k.a. Meares, Leonard F.; Meares, Len ) (
10 works by ) Biography: Meares published works under a variety of pseudonyms but is best known by his pseudonym
Marshall Grover, under which he published more than 400 titles, making him 'Australia's most prolific writer of western stories' (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature).
Lee Pattinson (
17 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Arden, Noni (5 works);
Dee, Rebecca (2 works);
Farr, Caroline (1 work);
Lester, Teri (5 works);
Mitchell, Kerry (1 work);
Nicholls, Pamela;
Maxwell, Anne (2 works) ] Born: [ca.1920?] England Gender: Female Arrived in Australia: ca.1940 - 1945? Note: Many of Lee Pattinson's pseudonyms were used by other authors as well, among them Rena Cross and Richard Wilkes Hunter, qq.v. She has also written several works on child care and contributed scripts to the popular 1960s and 1970s Australian television series Homicide and Division 4.
Ru Pullan (
74 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Barrie, Wynne (1 work);
Easton, Paul (13 works);
Durand, Cass (22 works);
Hardin, Luke (19 works);
Rand, Lew (10 works) ] Gender: Male
L.W. Riley (
1 work by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Hunt, Roger (1 work) Born: 24 Jan 1917 Perth, Western Australia] Gender: Male
J.S. Reoch [Writing under the name Ben Gilbert] (
1 work by ) Gender: Male
Carl Ruhen [Also writes as:
Farr, Caroline (5 works);
Summerton, Vicki (1 work);
Brand, Peter (7 works);
Bailey, Martha (1 work);
Dietrich, Wolf (2 works);
Harris, Mark (7 works);
Law, Simone (8 works);
Steele, Samantha (6 works);
Bentley, Michael (1 work);
Hart, Alison (2 works);
Slater, John (2 works);
Brandstift, Adele ] Born: 2 Aug 1937 New Zealand Gender: Male Arrived in Australia: 1947?
John Sellenger (
4 works by ) [Writes as Michael Hunter] Gender: Male
R. Sinclair-Wood (
20 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Savage, Richard (1 work);
Savic, Rann (1 work) ] Born: 1913 Gender: Male
Ray Slattery (
113 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Bent, James (1 work);
Gunn, Frank F. (1 work);
Hunt, Roger (2 works);
Miller, Karen (1 work);
Slater, John (78 works);
West, Terry (4 works);
O'Hara, Frank (2 works) ] Born: 6 Jan 1912 Sydney, New South Wales Gender: Male
E. Smith (a.k.a. Lindel, Edward )(
17 works by ) Born: 30 Jul 1915 Adelaide, South Australia Died: [1978] Gender: Male Biography: Lindall was a journalist before becoming a writer. Many of his stories were published in American and British publications such as Argosy and the Saturday Evening Post. He is not to be confused with American science fiction author Edward E. 'Doc' Smith (1890-1965).
Tony Sullivan Riley, Len (1 work)R.L. Taylor (
55 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Butler, Calvin (2 works);
Hunter, Michael;
McCaig, Morven (1 work);
Slater, John (3 works);
Wescott, Serena Louise (2 works);
Hall, Stuart (47 works) ] Gender: Male Note: Known as "John Slater" with other authors. "Michael Hunter" was also a shared pseudonym.
Robert Taylor (
55 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Butler, Calvin (2 works);
Hunter, Michael;
McCaig, Morven (1 work);
Slater, John (3 works);
Wescott, Serena Louise (2 works);
Hall, Stuart (47 works) ] Gender: Male
Tony Veitch (
100 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Collier, J Cobb;
McLure, Scott (92 works);
Kestrel, Dan (1 work) ] Born: 6 Jan 1914 Glasgow, Scotland Died: 23 Feb 1983 Sydney, New South Wales Gender: Male
Elwyn Wallace (
8 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Dengate, Robin;
Winter, Frank (6 works);
Duncan, Gelie (1 work) ] Born: 1916 Newcastle, New South Wales Gender: Female
Ken Welsh [aka Barry Braydor] (
19 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Berkley, Taylor (3 works);
Breydor, Billy (3 works);
Breydor, B. (LAC) (1 work);
Carstairs, Chris (3 works);
Mason, Andrew (2 works) ] Born: 22 Aug 1941 Melbourne, Victoria Gender: Male
Paul Wheelahan (
136 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Dodge, Emerson (72 works);
McKinley, Brett (54 works);
Jefferson, Ben (3 works);
Bonnard, Adam (4 works);
Clay, E. Jefferson (2 works);
Nicholas, Ben;
James, Matt;
Bodie, Ryan ] Born: 1930 Bombala, New South Wales Gender: Male Biography: As well as being a prolific writer of pulp westerns, Wheelahan also worked as an illustrator for several Australian pulp publishers, including work assisting with the inking of Stan Pitt's Yarmak comic. He then went on to write and illustrate the popular comics The Raven and The Panther, the latter achieving some fame in America.
Richard Wilkes-Hunter (
292 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Conrad, Tod (40 works);
Crane, Alex (2 works);
Ashton, Fiona (1 work);
Dark, James (1 work);
Douglas, Diana (22 works);
Douglas, Shane (47 works);
Dunn, James (1 work);
Gray, Adrian (11 works);
Hart, Alison (2 works);
Hunt, Roger (1 work);
Ross, Bradley (2 works);
Waters, Lucy (1 work);
Farr, Caroline (33 works);
Morley, Kell;
Hunter, Wilkes (2 works);
Hunter, R. W. (7 works);
Hunter, R. (2 works);
Wilkes-Hunter, R. (2 works);
Wilkes-Hunter, Richard (1 work);
Wilkes, Gregory (4 works);
Wade-Farrel, R. (2 works);
Owen, Michael (15 works);
Mitchell, Kerry (19 works);
Crane, Tod (1 work);
Conway, Ted (1 work);
Wilkes, Leslie (18 works);
Marlowe, Shauna (24 works);
Garland, Sheila (8 works);
Garland, Shiela (4 works);
Lester, Teri ] Born: 14 Mar 1906 Hunters Hill, New South Wales Died: 20 Jan 1991 Sydney, New South Wales Gender: Male
James Workman (
26 works by all writing names ) [Also writes as:
Dark, James (4 works);
Kain, Victor (1 work) Born: 2 Feb 1912 Scotland Died: 28 Mar 2001 Sydney, New South Wales Gender: Male Arrived in Australia: 1950s Biography: James Workman was educated in England and trained as a naval cadet. He spent three years in the London Metropolitan Police. Moving to South Africa, Workman enlisted with the Witwatersand Rifles and later joined a touring theatre company. He worked for the South African Broadcasting Commission as an announcer, scriptwriter and producer, occupations he continued to pursue after his move to Australia. J Ashley Ron Dunne Alan Foley Dorothy GarrardD. Hannay William Larkins Michael Lauletta Norman Lazenby J. McKinnes John O'Mara Bruce RamageMartin Smith
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