May, Emmet C
Entry updated 10 October 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1875-1947) US businessman and author, of some sf interest for White Bear and Gold: Tall Tales by the Wandering Jew (coll of linked stories 1931) (see Wandering Jew), which contains a range of stories, from examples of the Tall Tale [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] through faux-legends on to the depiction of a Lost Race discovered under Egypt and at least one tale involving the creation of something like a Frankenstein Monster. [JC]
Emmet Claire May
born Salyersville, Kentucky: 5 October 1875
died Chicago, Illinois: 22 June 1947
works (selected)
- White Bear and Gold: Tall Tales by the Wandering Jew (Boston, Massachusetts: Richard G Badger, Publisher The Gorham Press, 1931) [coll of linked stories: hb/uncredited]
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