Horatio Winslow

Born in Wisconsin in 1882, Horatio Winslow built a varied literary career that reached across poetry, fiction, and magazine work. Early in his career he published verse, including Some Wander Songs and Other Verse, and he also wrote Rhymes and Meters, a practical guide for versifiers that kept his name in circulation for later readers.

Winslow was involved with the early socialist magazine The Masses, serving as one of its editors during its formative years. He later became especially known as a prolific writer of short stories for magazines, with work appearing in places such as The Saturday Evening Post. He also wrote detective fiction, including Into Thin Air, a novel associated with Leslie Quirk.

Beyond publishing, Winslow served in World War I and was decorated by France with the Croix de Guerre. He died in 1972, leaving behind the record of a writer who was comfortable in many forms and who seems to have moved between literary, popular, and public life with equal energy.