Stanton A. Coblentz
{{Short description|American author and poet}}
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Stanton Arthur Coblentz (August 24, 1896 – September 6, 1982) was an American writer and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was The Sunken World,{{Cite book |last=Coblentz |first=Stanton A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZJwMw1gM2EC |title=The Sunken World |date=2008-03-01 |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |isbn=978-1-4344-6306-7 |language=en}} a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928. The next year, he published his first novel, The Wonder Stick.{{Cite book |last=Coblentz |first=Stanton A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kh8Cb8MlHRQC&q=Stanton+A.+Coblentz |title=The Wonder Stick |date=2007-10-01 |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |isbn=978-1-4344-9292-0 |language=en}} But poetry and history were his greatest strengths. Coblentz tended to write satirically.
He also wrote books of literary criticism and nonfiction concerning historical subjects. Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz was published the year after his death.{{Cite book |last1=Coblentz |first1=Stanton Arthur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R1ckAQAAMAAJ |title=Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz |last2=Elliot |first2=Jeffrey M. |date=1993 |publisher=Borgo Press |isbn=978-0-89370-338-7 |language=en}}
Bibliography
- The Decline of Man (1925) [non fiction]
- The Lone Adventurer (1927)
- The Literary Revolution (1927) [non fiction]
- The Sunken World (1928)
- The Wonder Stick (1929)
- Shadows on a Wall (1930)
- The Answer of the Ages (1931)
- In Caverns Below (1935, also known as The Hidden World)
- The Pageant of Man (1936)
- Songs by the Wayside (1938)
- Green Vistas (1943)
- Youth Madness (1944)
- When the Birds Fly South (1945)
- An Editor Looks At Poetry (1947)
- The Sunken World (1949)
- After 12,000 Years (1950)
- Into Plutonian Depths (1950)
- The Planet of Youth (1952)
- Times travelers (1952)
- The Rise of the Anti-Poets (1955)
- Under the Triple Suns (1955){{Cite book |last=Coblentz |first=Stanton A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tXmGoAEACAAJ |title=Under the Triple Suns |date=2014-05-29 |publisher=Armchair Fiction & Music |isbn=978-1-61287-216-2 |language=en}}
- Hidden World (1955)
- The Blue Barbarians (1958)
- My Life in Poetry (1959)
- Next Door to the Sun (1960)
- The Runaway World (1961)
- The Moon People (1964)
- The Last of the Great Race (1964)
- The Lizard Lords (1964)
- The Lost Comet (1964)
- Ten Crises in Civilization (1965)
- Lord of Tranerica (1966)
- The Crimson Capsule (1967, also known as The Animal People)
- The Poetry Circus (1967)
- The Day the World Stopped (1968)
- The Militant Dissenters (1970)
- The Island People (1971)
- Strange Universes: New Selected Poems (1977)
- Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz (1983)
- Light Beyond (1989)
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References
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External links
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- [http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Stanton_A._Coblentz Bibliography] at Museum of Learning
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- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Stanton Arthur Coblentz}}
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811121857/https://webspace.utexas.edu/cokerwr/www/coblentz.html] Brief article about the science fiction written by Coblentz, with many hyperlinked references
- {{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=106 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:American science fiction writers
Category:American male short story writers
Category:20th-century American poets