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Farnsworth Wright
1888–1940
Best remembered as the editor who helped define the golden age of Weird Tales, he had a sharp eye for strange, memorable fiction. His work behind the scenes helped bring major horror and fantasy writers to a wide readership.
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After Two Nights of the Ear-ache
by Farnsworth Wright
About the author
Born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 29, 1888, Farnsworth Wright was an American editor, poet, and critic. He is most closely associated with Weird Tales, the influential pulp magazine he edited from 1924 until 1940 during its most celebrated years.
Before and during his editorial career, he also worked as a journalist and critic, and he wrote some fiction and poetry of his own. Under his editorship, Weird Tales became a key home for imaginative and unsettling fiction, publishing writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith.
Wright died on June 12, 1940. Although he is less famous than many of the authors he published, his editorial judgment played a major part in shaping early twentieth-century horror and fantasy magazine fiction.