Schneider, Isidor
Entry updated 20 May 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1896-1977) US journalist, poet and author, who also served as Literary Editor of the left-wing journal New Masses in the 1930s and 1940s; of sf interest is Doctor Transit (1925) as by I S, an Identity Exchange tale in which a young married couple, unhappy with their native genders, explore the coefficient of Sex in human relations by persuading the eponymous Scientist to operate on them (see Transgender SF). Neither proves happy with his or her new gender; the now-female protagonist, after being operated on again and once more becoming male, turns into a suicidal prophet named Jeremiah. One of the "messages" of the novel is that transition leads to insanity (see Scientific Errors). [JC]
Isidor Schneider
born Horodenka, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire [subsequently Poland; then USSR; now Ukraine]: 23 August 1896
died New York: 3 August 1977
works
- Doctor Transit (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925) as by I S [hb/]
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