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Centaur Press
Donald Metcalf Grant (April 3, 1927 – August 19, 2009) was an American publisher. Biography He was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1927 and graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1949. Grant's interest in fantasy and science fiction started when he began reading the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs at age 10.Eshbach 1983, pp. 166–168. He married in 1956 and has two children. Grant was involved in the founding of several science fiction and fantasy small press publishers. He co-founded Grant-Hadley Enterprises in 1945,Chalker and Owings 1998, p. 822. The Buffalo Book Company in 1946Chalker and Owings 1998, pp. 123–125. and Centaur Press (late 1960s–1981).Chalker and Owings 1998, pp. 152–154. Centaur Press was co-founded with Charles M. Collins. It was primarily a paperback publisher, though one of its more successful titles was reissued in hardcover. It was notable for reviving pulp adventure and fantasy works of the early twentieth century for its "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence () is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Rhode Island, most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, Rhode Island, Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities in New England, founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port, as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean D'Esme
Jean Marie Henri d'Esménard, known as Jean d'Esme (27 September 1894 – 24 February 1966) was a French writer and journalist. Biography D'Esme was born in Shanghai, China in a noble French family originating from Provence. His father was a customs official in the Indochinese island Réunion. Jean studied in Paris in National School of Overseas France. After World War I, he turned to journalism and travelling, and started writing for magazines ''Je sais tout'', '' Le Matin'' and ''L'Intransigeant''. He travelled extensively in Central and East Africa, and wrote a series of articles about Ethiopia for ''L'Écho de Paris''. He published his first book, ''Thi-Bâ, fille d'Annam'', in 1920, for which he was awarded Prix de Jouy by the Académie Française. D'Esme became known for his adventure novels, most notably ''Les Dieux Rouges'', published in English as ''The Red Gods''. He has also written numerous biographies, mostly of colonial military heroes, and a number of books for c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis Adelbert Kline
Otis Adelbert Kline (July 1, 1891 – October 24, 1946) was an American songwriter, adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine ''Weird Tales''. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price. Kline and Burroughs Kline is best known for an apocryphal literary feud with fellow author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which he supposedly raised the latter's ire by producing close imitations ('' The Planet of Peril'' (1929) and two sequels) of Burroughs's Martian novels, though set on Venus; Burroughs, the story goes, then retaliated by writing his own Venus novels, whereupon Kline responded with an even more direct intrusion on Burroughs's territory by boldly setting two novels on Mars. Kline's jungle adventure stories, reminiscent of Burroughs's Tarzan tales, have also been cited as evidence of the conflict. While the two authors did write the works in qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wenzel
David T. Wenzel (; born November 22, 1950) is an illustrator and children's book artist. He is best known for his graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Hobbit''. Career Wenzel's first ambition had been to work for one of the big animation houses in California, but his early career path led him instead to work at an advertising agency and as a penciler in the mainstream comic book industry. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s he worked on such Marvel Comics titles as '' Avengers'' and '' Savage Sword of Conan''. He penciled part of ''The Avengers'' " Korvac Saga" story arc which won a 1979 Eagle Award for Best Continued Story. Segueing from comics to children's literature in the 1980s, Wenzel illustrated Robb Walsh's ''Kingdom of the Dwarfs'' for Centaur Books, two books in the '' Little Bear'' book series, and then illustrated a series of books about American colonial life for Troll Associates. A recommendation from college classmate Larry Marder was key to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Fabian
Stephen Emil Fabian Sr. (January 3, 1930 – May 6, 2025) was an American fantasy and science-fiction artist who only became a professional artist at the age of 54 after losing his job. Despite being a self-taught artist, he became a widely known illustrator in the science-fiction and fantasy market, and was given a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006 at the age of 76. Early life Stephen Fabian was born January 3, 1930, in Garfield, New Jersey, the son of Andrew and Anna Hrina Fabian, both of Czech descent. When he was young, his father, an industrial laborer, moved his family to nearby Passaic, New Jersey. When Stephen was restless, his mother kept him amused by drawing sketches. Although Stephen was not excited by school and did the minimum amount of work to earn passing grades, he did show interest in technical courses and mathematics. Air Force Fabian graduated from high school in 1948 and immediately got a job at a factory loading trailers. He quickly de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ireland (artist)
David Kenneth Ireland (August 25, 1930 – May 17, 2009) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and Minimalist architect. Early life Born in Bellingham, Washington. He studied Printmaking and Industrial Arts at California College of Arts and Crafts (CCA), graduating in 1953 with his BFA degree. After college he attended United States Army service. After leaving the Army Ireland traveled Europe extensively, working as an illustrator, and eventually traveled to Africa to lead safari trips. Work It was not until his 40s that Ireland decided to dedicate himself to work as a full-time artist. He returned to the United States and returned to school, this time at the San Francisco Art Institute. Upon graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, Ireland spent a year working in New York, before returning to settle in San Francisco. In 1975, Ireland purchased a victorian house built in 1886 from Paul John Greub, an accordion maker, for $50,000. The house is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Brunner
Frank Brunner (born February 21, 1949) is an American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s. Early life Brunner attended Manhattan's High School of Art and Design. He was in the same graduating class as Larry Hama and Ralph Reese. He studied at the New York University Film School. Career Comics Brunner entered the comics profession as a horror writer-artist for the black-and-white comics magazines ''Web of Horror'', '' Creepy'', ''Eerie'', and ''Vampirella''. His first work for Marvel Comics was inking an 11-page Watcher backup story in ''The Silver Surfer'' #6 (June 1969). Brunner's best-known color-comics work is his Marvel Comics collaboration with writer Steve Engelhart on the supernatural hero Doctor Strange in '' Marvel Premiere'' #9–14 (July 1973 – March 1974) and in ''Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts'' #1–2 and #4–5 (June–August 1974 and Oct.–Dec. 1974). The two killed Dr. Strange's mentor, the Ancien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgil Finlay
Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time."Collins, Charles M. "Charles Collins Reviews Fables of Heroic Fantasy and Eldritch Horror". ''Castle of Frankenstein'' no. 6 964 While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Finlay in 2012. Biography Virgil Warden Finlay was born July 23, 1914, in Rochester, New York. His father, woodw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Jones (artist)
Jeffrey Catherine Jones (January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011) was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976, as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. Fantasy artist Frank Frazetta supposedly described Jones as "the greatest living painter" and she included the quote on her website, but the source of the quote is unknown and Frazetta denied ever having said it when asked. Although Jones first achieved fame as simply Jeff Jones and later as Jeffrey Jones, she transitioned to female and added Catherine as a middle name in 1998. Early life Jeffrey Durwood Jones was born January 10, 1944, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. As a child, her father was overseas in the military. She graduated from Georgia State College in 1967 with a degree in geology and was keenly interested in art and admired the work of Johannes Vermeer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Rembrandt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robb Walsh
Robb Walsh is an American food writer, cookbook author, and restaurant owner who divides his time between Galway Bay, Ireland, and Galveston, Texas. He is a former commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, Sunday; former restaurant critic at the Houston Press (2000 until 2010); former editor-in-chief of Chile Pepper Magazine (1999 to 2000); former food columnist for Natural History magazine, and three-time winner of the James Beard Award. He currently writes about food for magazines such as Houstonia and Texas Highways, and websites such as First We Feast. He was a partner and co-founder of the former El Real Tex-Mex Cafe in Houston's Montrose neighborhood. Walsh is the author of more than a dozen food books, including Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook (Chronicle, June 2002), which was nominated for the James Beard Award in the Americana category. His book, The Tex-Mex Cookbook (Broadway 2004), was nominated for the IACP Cookbook Award in the American Category. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galad Elflandsson
Galad Elflandsson (born 1951) is a Canadian fantasy writer. Literary career In the 1980s, Elflandsson was a member of a group of fantasy writers who met at the House of Speculative Fiction bookstore in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which he also managed. Other members of the group included Gordon Derevanchuk, Charles de Lint, Charles R. Saunders and John Bell. The group hosted the 10th World Fantasy Convention The World Fantasy Convention is an annual science fiction convention, convention of professionals, collectors, and others interested in the field of fantasy. The World Fantasy Awards are presented at the event. Other features include an art sh ... in 1984. Elflandson's novel, '' The Black Wolf'', was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1979. Bibliography Novels *'' The Black Wolf'' (1979) Collections *''Tales of Carcosa'' (2018) Short stories *"A Tapestry of Dreams" (1978) *"How Darkness Came to Carcosa" (1978) *"Nightfear" (1978) *"The Piper of Dray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Carter
Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lovecraft parody) and Grail Undwin. He is best known for his work in the 1970s as editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, which introduced readers to many overlooked classics of the fantasy genre. Life Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy in his youth, and became broadly knowledgeable in both fields. He was also active in fandom. Carter served in the United States Army (infantry, Korea, 1951–53), and then attended Columbia University and took part in Leonie Adams's Poetry Workshop (1953–54). He was an advertising and publishers' copywriter from 1957 until 1969, when he took up writing full-time. He was also an editorial consultant. During much of his writing career h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
