Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay
Entry updated 2 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1889-1955) US author who wrote a number of 1920s romantic novels and is best known for the successful noir crime novels which she released from 1929 to 1954. She began to publish work of genre interest with Miss Kelly (1947), a Fantasy for children in which the titular Cat not only understands human language but has the power of speech, long carefully hidden (as advised by her mother) until after an emergency involving an escaped tiger who must be talked out of a killing frenzy; later Miss Kelly achieves some reform of conditions at the local Zoo. Of particular sf interest is the Time Loop story "Friday, the Nineteenth" (Summer 1950 F&SF), one of several whose reiterations of a single day anticipated Groundhog Day (1993). Apparently recruited to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction by its then editor Anthony Boucher, Holding published two more genre tales there. [DRL]
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
born New York: 18 June 1889
died New York: 7 February 1955
works
- Miss Kelly (New York: William Morrow, 1947) [hb/]
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