Seabury Quinn

Born in Washington, D.C., in 1889, Seabury Grandin Quinn worked as a lawyer and government employee while building a second career as a writer. His first published story appeared in 1917, and he went on to become one of the most familiar names in American pulp fiction.

Quinn is most closely associated with Weird Tales, where his stories of the flamboyant occult detective Jules de Grandin made him a reader favorite. The series ran for decades and helped define the magazine’s mix of supernatural mystery, horror, and adventure.

Although his reputation rests mainly on his weird fiction, Quinn also wrote journalism and fiction under other names. He died in 1969, but his work still stands as an important part of early twentieth-century popular horror and the golden age of the pulps.