Here at Age of Aces we will always try to give you as much information as we can about the authors and artists that appear in our reprints. And, of course, if you know something about any of them that we may have omitted or gotten wrong, please let us know.
Alden McWilliams
Alden Spurr “Mac” McWilliams was born February 2, 1916 in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father, John McWilliams, was born 1882 in NYC of Irish ancestry. His mother, Florence L. (…)
C.M. Miller
C. M. Miller’s life is something of a mystery. In trying to research the man behind the prolific byline, the only solid fact we have uncovered is that his name is not a pseudonym. (…)
Eugene M. Frandzen
Eugene Mabus Frandzen was born in San Diego,California on April 13, 1893. His father, who was also named Eugene Frandzen, was born in Texas to Danish and German immigrant farmers. (…)
Frederick Blakeslee
Frederick Manley Blakeslee was born in Buffalo, New York on December 4, 1898. (…)
Harold F. Cruickshank
Harold F. Cruickshank (1893-1965) was a popular writer throughout the Golden Age of pulp fiction. He was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. (…)
John Fleming Gould
John Gould (1906-1996) was born in Worcester, Mass., and grew up in Brooklyn, where he was childhood friends with Walter Baumhofer, future Doc Savage cover artist. (…)
John Newton Howitt
John Newton Howitt (1885-1958), a graduate of the Art Students League (other grads: Homer, Gibson, Pyle), started working professionally in 1907 as a painter of portraits, landscapes, and covers, and an illustrator of interior artwork for many “slick” magazines as well. (…)
Norvell Page
Norvell W. Page (1906-1961) grew up in Richmond, Virginia, the son of an executive at the Wurlitzer Music Company, and the great-grandson of the Governor of Williamsburg. (…)
Ralph Oppenheim
According to pulp historian Don Hutchison, Ralph Oppenheim had never even been in an airplane, despite turning out a huge number of air war stories for the Pulps. (…)
Robert J. Hogan
Robert Jasper Hogan was born in Buskirk, New York on 4 June 1897. The son of a Dutch Reformed Minister, the family name was changed from Van Hoogen. (…)
Steve Fisher
Stephen Gould Fisher was born on August, 29 1913, in Marine City, Michigan and grew up in the Los Angeles area. His mother, an actress, was often out of town. (…)
William E. Barrett
William Edmund Barrett was born in New York City on November 16, 1900. His parents, John and Eleanor Barrett, moved to Denver in 1916, where Bill graduated from Cathedral High School. (…)