1. Seabury Grandin Quinn was an American government lawyer, journalist, and pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.
11 Facts About Seabury Quinn
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Seabury Quinn was born January 1,1889, in Washington, DC In 1910 Quinn graduated from the law school of the National University and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar.
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Seabury Quinn's first published work was "The Law of the Movies", in The Motion Picture Magazine, December 1917.
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Seabury Quinn introduced Jules de Grandin as a character in 1925, and continued writing stories about him until 1951.
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Seabury Quinn alternated between law and journalism all his life.
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Seabury Quinn's writing was secondary to his career as a lawyer specializing in mortuary jurisprudence.
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Seabury Quinn became editor of Casket and Sunnyside in December 1925.
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The second was An Encyclopedic Law Glossary For Funeral Directors and Embalmers, published by the Williams Institute of Mortuary Science, Kansas City 1940, with an introduction by Seabury Quinn, dated January 1940.
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Besides contributing to the then De-Ce-Co Magazine, later the Dodge Magazine, for the Dodge Chemical Co, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Seabury Quinn wrote articles for The American Funeral Director and other trade journals.
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Mary Elizabeth Counselman was a friend of Seabury Quinn's and wrote a tribute to him after he died.
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Night Creatures, a collection of stories by Seabury Quinn, edited by Peter Ruber and Joseph Wrzos for Ash-Tree Press appeared in.