Well, Jean is a he. I know because I knew him before he
passed away.
If you have some doubt, get a copy of HARD-BOILDED DAMES (St.
Martin's, 1986) edited by Bernard Drew with Preface by Marcia
Muller. The anthology has "stories featuring women
detectives, reporters, adventurers, and crimnals from the
pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s," with "Hit the Baby" by
Roswell Brown, first printed in the February 15, 1936 issue
of The Shadow Magazine.
Drew's introduction says, "Grace 'Redsie' Culver appeared in
twenty stories in the magazine form 1934 to '37. They were
written under the 'Roswell Brown' house name by Jean Francis
Webb (b. 1910), who also contributed stories under his own
name in the categories of mystery, romance, history, and
advanture. He wrote the dayly radio stories for 'Chick
Carter, Boy Detective' from 1944-45."
I hope you have noticed that I used "he" and "his."
Jiro Kimra
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 02 Oct 2001 EDT