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Lawrence F. Willard
Best known today for the witty science-fiction short story Rabbits Have Long Ears, this little-documented author left behind a small but intriguing trail in mid-century print. The available record suggests a writer who moved between speculative fiction and regional nonfiction.
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Rabbits Have Long Ears
by Lawrence F. Willard
About the author
Lawrence F. Willard is a hard author to pin down, and that mystery is part of the appeal. The clearest verified credit is the science-fiction story Rabbits Have Long Ears, which appeared in Worlds of If Science Fiction in August 1958 and is now also available through Project Gutenberg.
A few other surviving listings connect the name to Pictorial Connecticut, published in 1962, and to at least one later magazine piece, "Stony Creek, Connecticut," published in Yankee in 1975. Taken together, those sources suggest a writer with interests in both imaginative storytelling and New England places.
Because reliable biographical information is so limited, many personal details about Willard's life remain unconfirmed. No clear, verifiable portrait turned up in the sources reviewed for this overview, so the focus here stays on the work that can be documented.