CURREY, Lloyd Wesley

(1942-)

   US specialist bookseller (since 1968) and bibliographer. With David G. HARTWELL he published SF-I: A Selective Bibliography (1971 chap), both writing as Kilgore TROUT; with Hartwell founded (1973) and operated Dragon Press, a SMALL PRESS publishing books about sf, fantasy and horror; the partnership was dissolved in 1979, leaving Hartwell sole owner. Also with Hartwell, he co-edited the GREGG PRESSScience Fiction Reprint series 1975-81; alone he edited the Gregg Press Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy author BIBLIOGRAPHIES 1980-83. LWC's books are: A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources for Fantasy and Science Fiction(1977) with Marshall B. TYMN and Roger SCHLOBIN; Index to Stories in Thematic Anthologies of Science Fiction (1978) with Tymn, Martin H. GREENBERG and Joseph D. OLANDER; and Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction (1979). This last is his most important work, a standard text which brought new standards of accuracy and scholarship to sf bibliography. Listings for newly covered authors are often published in NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION. A second edition of the bibliography is in preparationScience Fiction, Utopian, Fantasy \& Horror Literature (1705-1938) (1993), offered as his antiquarian bookseller's catalogue \#94, is an extensively annotated checklist of almost 1000 texts from the library of Donald A. WOLLHEIM.

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   See also: SF IN THE CLASSROOM.