:Amelia Reynolds Long
{{Short description|American science fiction story writer and mystery novelist}}
{{Infobox writer
| image = File:Amelia Reynolds Long graduation photo from UPenn, 1931.jpg
| imagesize = |
| name = Amelia Reynolds Long
| caption = Graduation photo of Reynolds Long from the University of Pennsylvania, 1931.
| pseudonym = Peter Reynolds (sometimes with William L. Crawford)
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|11|25}}
| birth_place = Columbia, Pennsylvania
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|03|26|1904|11|25}}
| death_place = Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Short story writer
- novelist
- poet
}}
| nationality = American
| period =
| genre = Detective fiction, Science fiction
| website =
}}
Amelia Reynolds Long ({{Birth date|1904|11|25}} – {{Death date|1978|03|26}}) was an American detective fiction writer, novelist, and a pioneer woman writer for the early science fiction magazines of the 1930s.
Biography
Born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, Long moved at age six with her family to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where she lived the rest of her life.{{cite web |last1=Williamson |first1=Chet |title=A Visit With Amelia Reynolds Long |url=https://amelialong.tripod.com/avisit |website=A Tribute to Amelia Reynolds Long |access-date=21 November 2022}}
Long received a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931, and a master's degree from Penn in 1932.{{cite web |title=Amelia Reynolds Long |url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2241897A/Amelia_Reynolds_Long |website=Open Library |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=20 November 2022}} Long was the author of a number of science fiction stories, including "A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" and "Scandal in the Fourth Dimension".{{Cite book|title=Amazing science fiction anthology : the war years, 1936-1945|others=Greenberg, Martin Harry,, Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992,, Barr, George, 1937-, Jankus, Hank,, Jaquays, Paul|isbn=0880384409|location=Lake Geneva, WI|oclc=15532459|year = 1987}} Her Weird Tales story, "The Thought-Monster", was made into the 1958 British science fiction film Fiend Without a Face. The story's sale to the film's producers was brokered by her agent Forrest J Ackerman.{{cite web |last1=Alsedek |first1=John C. |title=My Hometown Heroine: Amelia Reynolds Long and FIEND WITHOUT A FACE |url=https://www.flapperpress.com/post/my-hometown-heroine-amelia-reynolds-long-and-fiend-without-a-face |website=Flapper Press |access-date=22 November 2022 |date=23 July 2022}}
Some of her stories appeared under the byline "A. R. Long." Using the combined pseudonym Peter Reynolds, Long co-wrote the 1936 novel Behind the Evidence with William L. Crawford, based on the Lindbergh kidnapping case.{{cite book | last1=Chalker | first1=Jack L. | authorlink1=Jack L. Chalker | last2=Owings | first2=Mark | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=705–706 | year=1998}}
In the 1940s, influenced by Agatha Christie, Long turned from science fiction to writing mysteries. Between 1939 and 1952, she published more than 30 murder mystery novels.{{cite web |last1=Simms |first1=Richard |title=Mystery Novels |url=https://amelialong.tripod.com/mystery.htm |website=A Tribute to Amelia Reynolds Long |access-date=20 November 2022}} In 1951, Long became a textbook editor for Stackpole Books. She also began to write poetry, participating in the Harrisburg Poetry Workshop of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society. Long edited the society's 1977 anthology, Pennsylvania Poems.{{cite web |last1=Simms |first1=Richard |title=A Tribute to Amelia Reynolds Long |url=https://amelialong.tripod.com/ |website=AmeliaLong |access-date=20 November 2022}} Later in life, Long worked for 15 years as a curator at the William Penn Memorial Museum.{{cite web |title=Amelia Reynolds Long |url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2241897A/Amelia_Reynolds_Long |website=Open Library |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=20 November 2022}}
Long never married or had children. She died in 1978, at age 73.{{cite web |last1=Simms |first1=Richard |title=A Tribute to Amelia Reynolds Long |url=https://amelialong.tripod.com/ |website=AmeliaLong |access-date=20 November 2022}}
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|0518869}}
- {{isfdb name|id=12165}}
- {{cite web
|url=http://amelialong.tripod.com/
|title=A Tribute to Amelia Reynolds Long
|accessdate=2008-04-25
|last=Simms
|first=Richard
|date=2007-02-27
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080511182845/http://amelialong.tripod.com/| archivedate= 11 May 2008 | url-status= live}}
- {{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=279 | year=1978|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American science fiction writers
Category:American crime fiction writers
Category:American women novelists
Category:People from Columbia, Pennsylvania
Category:American women science fiction and fantasy writers
Category:Novelists from Pennsylvania