MUNSEY, Frank A(ndrew)

(1854-1925)

   US newspaper and magazine publisher and writer. He began publishing in 1882 with The Golden Argosy, a weekly BOYS' PAPER, later transformed into The ARGOSY . FAM expanded his titles to include MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE, The SCRAP BOOK , The ALL-STORY , CAVALIER and later, after acomplex series of mergers and title changes, All-Story Weekly and Argosy All-Story Weekly. A self-made millionaire, FAM was reviled for hisheavy-handed treatment of the newspapers under his control. Under the editorship of Robert Hobart Davis, his magazines became the most important pre-sf PULP MAGAZINES, publishing many works by prominent sf and fantasy authors, including Edgar Rice BURROUGHS, Ray CUMMINGS, George Allan ENGLAND, Ralph Milne FARLEY, Homer Eon FLINT, Austin HALL, Otis AdelbertKLINE, A. MERRITT and Sax ROHMER.

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   See also: HISTORY OF SF.