Deegan, Frances M
Entry updated 1 July 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1901-1975) US author who had two stories in 1944 detective magazines before beginning to publish work of sf interest with "The Martian and the Milkmaid" in Fantastic Adventures for October 1944. Sixteen further stories appeared in the Ziff-Davis stable of SF Magazines edited by Raymond A Palmer and later Howard Browne, the last two being the simultaneously dated "Murder on Mars" (April 1952 Amazing Stories) and "The Green Cat" (April 1952 Fantastic Adventures). Six of these tales are assembled as Pink Winds, Green Cats, Radiant Rocks & Other SF Classics by the Forgotten Woman of Science Fiction's Golden Age (coll 2006 ebook), with a new introduction by Jean Marie Stine.
It has been suggested that Deegan was a House Name of Street & Smith, in one of whose magazines the first Deegan detective story appeared; but Eric Leif Davin in Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction 1926-1965 (2006) considers this unlikely since her sf appeared exclusively in Ziff-Davis publications. [DRL]
Frances Marie Deegan
born Iowa: 15 August 1901
died Los Angeles County, California: 22 July 1975
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- Pink Winds, Green Cats, Radiant Rocks & Other SF Classics by the Forgotten Woman of Science Fiction's Golden Age (place not given: Renaissance E Books, 2006) [coll: ebook: introduction by Jean Marie Stine: na/Leo Summers, Barye Phillips]
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