Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering American author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy".
Gertrude Barrows Bennett | |
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| Born | Gertrude Mabel Barrows September 18, 1884 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Died | February 2, 1948 (aged 63) San Francisco, California |
| Pen name | Francis Stevens |
| Occupation | Writer, stenographer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1917–23 (fiction writer) |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
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| Spouse | Stewart Bennett Carl Franklin Gaster |
Her most famous books include Claimed (which Augustus T. Swift, in a letter to The Argosy called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read") and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear.
Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919).
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