Pulp Fiction Writers

Behm, Marc (pulp fiction writer)

(1925- ) The American-born Behm has lived most of his life as an expatriate in France, where his published works have earned him much acclaim. In his own country, however, he remains a cult item, and many of his novels, at this writing, have been published only in French translations. This is unfortunate, as each […]

Beach, Rex (pulp fiction writer)

  (1877-1949) For a time, roughly between the turn of the 20th century until the 1920s, tales of Alaska and the Great White North posed a serious challenge to the western as the most popular form of frontier literature. In 1898, gold was discovered in the Yukon Territories of Canada, a harsh and remote region […]

Barrett, William E. (pulp fiction writer)

  (1900-1986) Barrett was a first-rate writer who made regular contributions to the pulps in the 1930s. Early on he was a regular for the air war magazines (chronicling the air aces and dogfights of World War I) and later became a staple on the covers of Dime Detective between 1935 and 1939, arguably the […]

Bogart, William G. (pulp fiction writer)

  (1903-1977) Also wrote as: Kenneth Robeson The other hard-boiled Bogart of the 1940s, William G. wrote good, entertaining crime novels about a private eye with a classic tough guy moniker, Johnny Saxon, and an unusual sideline, writing tough-guy detective stories for the pulp magazines. Bogart himself was a denizen of the pulp jungle for […]

Biggers, Earl Derr (pulp fiction writer)

  (1884-1933) A Harvard-educated journalist and for many years a columnist at the Boston Herald, Biggers made his mark as a popular novelist at the age of 29 with a comic mystery called Seven Keys to Baldpate, about a mystery writer trying to get through the night at a seemingly haunted old inn. George M. […]

Bradley, Marion Zimmer (pulp fiction writer)

  (1930-1999) Also wrote as: hapman, Miriam Gardner, Morgan Ives One of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy from the 1960s to the 1990s, Bradley is a particular favorite of college-age women who appreciate the author’s strong female characters and the feminist perspective she brought to much of her genre fiction. Born in […]

Bradbury, Ray (pulp fiction writer)

  (1920- ) Although his work and his fame eventually made him a part of serious modern literature, Ray Bradbury was first a star among the readers of the rough paper pages of the pulp science fiction magazines of the more fantastic sort with lurid covers of sword-wielding spacemen, bosomy blondes, and rampaging, ray-gun-firing Martians. […]

Brackett, Leigh (pulp fiction writer)

  (1915-1978) A born writer who is said to have scribbled stories since infancy, Brackett was particularly enamored of the swashbuckling fantasies and space operas she read in the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. She devoured the stories of such imaginative authors as Edgar Rice burroughs, Robert E. howard, and C. L. moore […]

Brand, Max (Frederick Schiller Faust) (pulp fiction writer)

  (1892-1944) Also wrote as: George Owen Baxter, Walter Butler, George Challis, Evan Evans, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland The man who would do as much or more than anyone to popularize the mythical dimensions of the American West and to make cowboy fiction the most popular of all pulp genres […]

Brown, Wenzell (pulp fiction writer)

  (1912-1981) Wenzell Brown was a top name in the popular ’50s subgenre of juvenile delinquency (JD) fiction, acclaimed by present-day connoisseurs like Miriam Linna as one of the “Big Three” (with Hal ellson and Irving shulman) of JD lit. The topics, with titles like The Big Rumble, Gang Girl, and The Hoods Ride In, […]