- Seabury Quinn
Seabury Grandin Quinn (aka Jerome Burke) (1889 - 1969) was a
pulp magazine author most famous for his stories of theoccult detective Jules de Grandin , published in "Weird Tales " with great success.His first published work was "The Law of the Movies", in "The Motion Picture Magazine", December 1917. (His story "Painted Gold" may have been written earlier.) "Demons of the Night" was published in "Detective Story Magazine" in March 19, 1918, followed by "Was She Mad?" on March 25, 1918. He published "The Stone Image" in 1919. He introduced Jules de Grandin as a character in 1925, and continued writing stories about him until 1951.
His first book, "Roads" (a surprising new origin for
Santa Claus , drawn from the original Christian legends), was published byArkham House in 1948.His writing was secondary to his career as a lawyer specializing in mortuary jurisprudence. He taught this subject at mortuary schools for many years, and for some 15 years was the editor of "Casket & Sunnyside", a leading trade journal. His Jerome Burke stories are still published in the "Dodge"
embalming magazine.Quinn was a contemporary of
Robert E. Howard ,H. P. Lovecraft andClark Ashton Smith .eabury Quinn Jr.
Quinn's son, Seabury Grandin Quinn, Jr. taught
drama atOhio University atAthens, Ohio from 1968-1995. The younger Quinn is also an annual panel member of the Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights' Festival, the yearly festival featuring new works byOhio University 's graduate playwrights.External links
* [http://www.redjacketpress.com/authors/seabury_quinn.html Biographical information]
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ae.cgi?Seabury%20Quinn Bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
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