(1915-1946) US writer for the Pulp magazines, particularly the Ziff-Davis productions Amazing and Fantastic Adventures. He published as Yerxa, as Elroy Arno, as Lee Francis (but see Frances Yerxa below as possible author under this name), Henry Gade, G W Irwin, Frank Patton and Morris J Steele, and under the House Names Richard Casey and Alexander Blade, beginning with "Death Rides at Night" for Amazing in August 1942 as Yerxa, and contributing prolifically until his death. The Freddie Funk series in Fantastic Adventures, beginning with "Freddie Funk's Madcap Mermaid" (January 1943 Fantastic Adventures), was completed after his death by his wife, Frances Yerxa (? -? ), with "Freddie Funk's Flippant Fairies" (September 1948 Fantastic Adventures). She also wrote some stories solo, beginning with "Negative Problem" (August 1947 Amazing), and married William L Hamling after Yerxa's death. As Frances Hamling she was managing editor of Imagination 1953-1958. [JC]
Leroy Yerxa
born Maine: 1915
died 1946
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