Farnsworth Wright was the editor of the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the magazine's heyday, editing 179 issues from November 1924 to March 1940.
17 Facts About Farnsworth Wright
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Farnsworth Wright acted as managing editor of The Seattle Star on April 25,1914, when twenty journalism students were handed responsibility for the paper for a day.
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Farnsworth Wright experienced several personal tragedies in his early life of which he would never speak.
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Farnsworth Wright's mother taught music and inspired in him his zeal for the classics and for art.
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Farnsworth Wright loved poetry and later encouraged its appearance in Weird Tales.
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Farnsworth Wright was working as a music critic for the Chicago Herald and Examiner when he began his association with Weird Tales, founded in 1923.
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Farnsworth Wright could be both discouraging and encouraging with equal lack of logic.
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Farnsworth Wright anonymously edited an anthology of WT stories, The Moon Terror, as a bonus for subscribers.
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Farnsworth Wright was noteworthy for starting the commercial careers of three important fantasy artists: Margaret Brundage, Virgil Finlay, and Hannes Bok.
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Farnsworth Wright published half a dozen pieces of his own fiction, but his stories are considered unmemorable.
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Farnsworth Wright's poetry is considered more delicate, but he limited its appearance.
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Farnsworth Wright married Marjorie J Zinkie in about 1929.
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Farnsworth Wright was a fellow University of Washington graduate and had worked as a librarian in various locales.
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Farnsworth Wright had developed Parkinson's disease in 1921; by 1930, he was unable to sign his own letters.
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Farnsworth Wright attempted to launch Wright's Shakespeare Library in 1935 with a pulp-format edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Farnsworth Wright's failing health forced him to resign as editor during 1940, and he died later that year.
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Farnsworth Wright was succeeded as editor of Weird Tales by Dorothy McIlwraith.