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Forsyth, Frederick
(1938-2025) UK author who gained fame with his first novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), and whose books are generally political thrillers. The Shepherd (1975 chap), however, is a sentimental Timeslip or ghost fantasy in which a pilot on Christmas Eve 1957 is saved from crashing by a World War Two pilot in an antique bomber: pilot and plane had been shot down on the Christmas Eve of 1943. ...
Devine, Arthur D
Pseudonym of South African author and journalist Arthur Durham Divine (1904-1987), in the UK from before World War Two and active as a war correspondent throughout that conflict; he also wrote as A D Devine, A D Divine, David Divine and David Rame. Of genre interest is Wings over the Atlantic (date unknown but pre-1938), in which a brilliant Mad Scientist attempts the traditional task of conquering the world with his ...
McGivern, William P
(1918-1982) US author, mostly of noir crime, who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Visible Invisible Man" in Amazing Stories for December 1940, and remained very prolific, initially under two pseudonyms that later became House Names: P F Costello, this name being annexed by Ziff-Davis, and Gerald Vance, and wrote one story ...
Anobile, Richard J
(1947-2023) US author and editor who created a number of graphic works based on various media productions, comprising many stills from a film or Television series captioned with scripted dialogue and stage directions. A particularly valuable reference from before the videotape boom is James Whale's Frankenstein (graph 1974), with over 1000 stills captioned with the complete dialogue transcribed from the soundtrack of ...
Higuera, Donna Barba
(? - ) US author whose first novel is nonfantastic, followed by El Cucuy Is Scared, Too! (2021 chap), a short fantasy for younger children featuring a sympathetic Monster. She is of sf interest for her second full-length tale, the Young Adult The Last Cuentista (2021), which interestingly soon extracts its young protagonist and her family away from a ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...