Gertrude Barrows Bennett | |
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| Born | Gertrude Mabel Barrows September 18, 1884[1] Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Died | February 2, 1948 (aged 63) San Francisco, California[2] |
| Pen name | Francis Stevens |
| Occupation | Writer, stenographer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1917–23 (fiction writer) |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
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| Spouse | Stewart Bennett Carl Franklin Gaster |
Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering American author of fantasy and science fiction.[3] Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 1917 and 1923[4] and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy".[5]
Her most famous books include Claimed (which Augustus T. Swift, in a letter to The Argosy called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read")[a] and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear.
Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919).[7]
- ^ Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration.
- ^ California, Death Index, 1940-1997
- ^ Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 by Eric Leif Davin, Lexington Books, 2005, pages 409-10.
- ^ Nicholls, Peter; Clute, John (1993). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. St. Martin's Press. pp. 1164–65. ISBN 0-312-13486-X..
- ^ "The Woman Who Invented Dark Fantasy" by Gary C. Hoppenstand from Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy by Francis Stevens, University of Nebraska Press, 2004, page x. ISBN 0-8032-9298-8
- ^ (promotional page). ""Claimed"". James A. Rock and Company Publishers. Archived from the original on July 18, 2003. Retrieved May 16, 2007.
- ^ The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn, Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 30.
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