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A. Merritt
A. Merritt was a pioneering, and popular, ScienceFantasyGenre science fantasy author, who also demonstrated his considerable fictioneering talent with WeirdFantasyGenre weird fantasy and MysteryGenre mystery stories. By the 1930s, Merrittís fiction was being listed among the most popular ScienceFictionGenre science fiction stories by pulp readers.
Background
A. MerrittBorn: Jan. 10, 1884
Died: Aug. 21, 1943
Meanwhile, Merritt was writing fiction on the side. His first PulpMagazines short story, ìThrough the Dragon Glass,î was published in AllStory All-Story in the Nov. 24, 1917, issue. Over the next 25 years, Merritt wrote imaginative, popular fiction leading readers into new alternate worlds and introducing them to sympathetic, yet weird, characters.
In 1938, readers of ArgosyThe Argosy magazine picked his novel The Ship of Ishtar as the most popular story ever published in the magazine. His PulpMagazines novelette The Moon Pool was the readersí favorite science fiction story in a survey by GernsbackHugo Hugo Gernsbackís WonderStories Wonder Stories.
Merritt also dabbled in other pulp genres, including WeirdFantasyGenre weird fantasy (ìThe Woman of the Wood,î which appeared in WeirdTales Weird Tales) and MysteryGenre mystery (Seven Footprints to Satan, which was serialized in ArgosyThe Argosy-All-Story).
His work influenced WilliamsonJack Jack Williamson and succeeding pulp fictioneers.
