Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor.
16 Facts About Donald Wandrei
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Donald Wandrei was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei.
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Donald Wandrei had fourteen stories in Weird Tales, another sixteen in Astounding Stories, plus a few in other magazines including Esquire.
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Donald Wandrei grew up in his parents' house at 1152 Portland Ave, St Paul and lived there most of his life save for a stint in the Army and occasional sojourns in New York and Hollywood.
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In 1923 and 1924, Donald Wandrei worked evenings at the Hill Reference Library.
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At the age of 16, Donald Wandrei completed his short story "The Red Brain", in which a mysterious Cosmic Dust sweeps through the universe, obliterating the stars.
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Donald Wandrei started writing in 1926 and his writing career took off around 1932.
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In 1925, Donald Wandrei gave Clark Ashton Smith $50 so the Auburn poet could see Sandalwood through the press.
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Donald Wandrei was active in pulp magazines until the late 1930s.
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Donald Wandrei personally made the case for Weird Tales to publish Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" telling Farnsworth Wright that unless he published the tale, Lovecraft would look for other magazines to submit stories to.
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Donald Wandrei broke into the 'slicks' with stories published in Esquire.
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Donald Wandrei contributed two stories to the Cthulhu Mythos: "The Fire Vampires" and "The Tree-Men of M'Bwa".
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Donald Wandrei wrote some outlines for Gang Busters and other comic books in the 1940s, and attempted writing song lyrics in Hollywood.
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The jacket drawing was by the author's brother Howard Donald Wandrei, who had died in 1956.
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Donald Wandrei occupied his time editing Lovecraft's Selected Letters, whose first two volumes appeared successively in 1965 and 1968.
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In 1984, Donald Wandrei was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.