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Yolen, Jane
(1939-2026) US author, partially resident in Scotland, who began publishing poems and articles when still in college, and who first came to notice with books for children, the first of many being Pirates in Petticoats (1963). Of her circa 460 titles, many of which won awards in her field, most were for children (see listing below for some of these), many of them being picture books for younger children; most of her adult fiction, of which she wrote relatively little, was ...
Janvier, Thomas A
(1849-1913) US journalist and author, whose Lost Worlds novel, The Aztec Treasure House: A Romance of Contemporaneous Antiquity (1890), didactically describes a surviving remnant of the Aztec empire. In The Women's Conquest of New York [for subtitle see Checklist] (dated 1953 but 1894 chap) as by A Member of the Committee of Safety of 1908, Tammany Hall misguidedly enfranchises females, who run amok in ...
Vincent, Lady Kitty
Working name of Scottish dog-breeder and author Lady Kitty Edith Blanche Ogilvy (1887-1969), who also wrote children's fiction as by Lady Kitty Riston; she is of sf interest for Lost World (1937), a Lost World adventure. [JC]
Norman, Barry
(1933-2017) UK journalist, television personality specializing in film criticism, and author whose sf novel is End Product (1975), a Near-Future Satire in which Blacks are lobotomized at birth and provide the civilized world with ample meat. The allegorical and political (see Race in SF) messages of the novel, which are both highly loaded, tend to clash. [JC]
Lebar, John
Pseudonym of Gilbert Munger Wright (1901-1966), son of Harold Bell Wright, with whom as Lebar he collaborated on the Mad Scientist novel The Devil's Highway (1932); for further details see his father's entry. [DRL]
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...