author
De Lysle F. (De Lysle Ferrée) Cass
1887–1973
A pulp-era writer with a taste for fantasy, adventure, and unusual magazine fiction, he published vivid stories in the years before World War I and also wrote an airship novel for younger readers.
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The Airship Boys in the Great War; or, The Rescue of Bob Russell
by De Lysle F. (De Lysle Ferrée) Cass
About the author
De Lysle Ferrée Cass was an American writer remembered mainly for fantasy and adventure fiction published in the early twentieth century. He wrote under the name De Lysle F. Cass, and his work appeared in popular pulp magazines, especially the Munsey group.
His short fiction is often noted for its exotic settings and for pushing against the limits of what magazine fantasy usually looked like at the time. In addition to magazine stories, he wrote The Airship Boys in the Great War in 1915, a fast-moving adventure novel that reflects the era's fascination with flight and technology.
Reliable biographical detail on Cass is fairly limited, but standard reference sources list his lifespan as 1887 to 1973. No suitable verified portrait image was found on the sources checked, so a profile image is not included.