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Dorothy Quick

Lifespan: 1896 – 1962
Nationality: American
Active: 1936
Works held: 1

Dorothy Quick (1896–1962) was an American poet and writer whose supernatural and mystery stories appeared in Weird Tales and elsewhere. As a child she had a famous friendship with the elderly Mark Twain, recounted in her memoir. Her graceful weird verse and fiction are a pleasant corner of the classic pulp.

The works

1936

The Lost Door

Wrote across

Recurring themes

Time Travel Horror

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward Nourse August Derleth Chester S. Geier Clifford D. Simak Dave Dryfoos David Mason E. Nesbit Edmond Hamilton

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Various Robert E. Howard Edmond Hamilton H. P. Lovecraft Jr. John W. Campbell E. E. Smith Jack Williamson Paul Ernst Sewell Peaslee Wright Ray Cummings

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