deFORD, Miriam Allen

deFORD, Miriam Allen
(1888-1975)
   US writer, a newspaper reporter for many years; probably known better for her many mystery stories (some award-winning) than for the sf of her later years. Her publications also include such nonfiction as The Real Bonnie and Clyde (1968) and her work as contributing editor to The Humanist. She edited Space, Time and Crime (anth 1964), a collection of sf stories with mystery elements. As an author of sf stories in her own right, she published over 30 items - beginning with "Last Generation" in 1946 for Harper's Magazine - in various magazines, though most of the stories in her two collections, Xenogenesis (coll 1969) and Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow (coll 1971), had first appeared in FSF. Her examinations of themes such as nuclear devastation and sexual roles is conducted in a crisp, clearcut style that sometimes lacks grace but never vigour.
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   See also: WOMEN SF WRITERS.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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