Anthony Boucher

Overview:

  • Legal Name: White, William Anthony Parker
  • Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
  • Date of Birth: August 21, 1911
  • Date of Death: April 29, 1968

Notes:

Prior to the early 1940's, Boucher was a noted detective writer, and was a well-known anthologist of that genre, particularly with Great American Detective Stories; Four-and-Twenty Bloodhounds (1950), and The Pocket Books of True Crime Stories (1943). In the SF field he was a book reviewer for The San Francisco Chronicle (1946-1947), the Chicago Sun-Times (1949-1950), the New York Herald Tribune (as H. H. Holmes, 1951-1968), the New York Times, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. With %%A,J. Francis McComas%%, Boucher was founding editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. When McComas left in 1954, Boucher became sole editor until he retired due to ill health in 1958. While writing mostly under the Boucher pseudonym, he also used the names Mudgett and Holmes; Mudgett was the first convicted serial killer in the USA (1896), and was known to use the alias Holmes.

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Anthologies

Chapter Books

Collections

Essays

Magazine Editor

Novels

Poems

Reviews

Short Fiction

Awards

  • 1957. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Hugo Award, Best American Professional Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1958. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Win)
  • 1959. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Win)
  • 1973. Man's Reach - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 2000. The Compleat Boucher - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 2018. The Compleat Werewolf - Retro Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 2018. Barrier - Retro Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 2018. Rocket to the Morgue - Retro Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 2019. We Print the Truth - Retro Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 2019. They Bite - Retro Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 2019. Elsewhen - Retro Hugo Award, Best Novelette (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 2019. One-Way Trip - Retro Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination below cutoff)

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