Dwight V. Swain

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Dwight Vreeland Swain (born November 17, 1915 in Rochester , Michigan ; died February 24, 1992 in Norman , Oklahoma ) was an American writer. He has written short stories in a variety of genres including science fiction , crime fiction , and westerns , has been a screenwriter and has written a number of guides and textbooks on creative writing .

Life

Swain was the son of railroad telegraphist John Edgar Swain and Florence Marietta, née Vreeland. He attended Jackson Junior College in Marianna , Florida and studied at the University of Michigan , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1937 , and at the University of Oklahoma , where he received his master's degree in 1954 . He worked as a journalist and editor for newspapers, was a soldier for three years during World War II and worked as a screenwriter for the journalism school at the University of Oklahoma from 1949, where he was a lecturer from 1952. From 1966 he worked for the Palmer Writers School .

From the mid-1930s he began to publish short stories. His first science fiction story Henry Horn's Super-Solvent was published in 1941 in the pulp magazine Fantastic Adventures , which was also the first in the series about the incapable inventor Henry Horn. Some of his SF stories have also been translated into German, including The Transposed Man as Der Gestaltwandler .

Since 1974 a scholarship named after him has been awarded by the Journalism School at the University of Oklahoma in recognition of his services. In 1991 Swain was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame .

Swain had married Margaret Reaves Simpson in 1942 and had a son with her (born 1946). The marriage ended in divorce in 1968. In 1969 he married Joye Raechel Boulton. Swain died in 1992 at the age of 76.

bibliography

Henry Horn (short story series)
  • Henry Horn's Super-Solvent (1941)
  • Henry Horn's Racing Ray (1942)
  • Henry Horn's Blitz Bomb (1942)
  • Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses (1942)
Novels
  • The Planet Murderer (1984, with Andrew J. Offutt , as John Cleve)
  • Monster (1991)
Short stories
  • The Devil's Lady (1942, as Clark South)
  • The Skin-Deep Beauty (1942)
  • The Powers of Darkness (1942)
  • Peace Mission to Planetoid X (1942)
  • The Bottle Imp (1942)
  • Crusade Across the Void (1942)
  • Shayla's Garden (1942)
  • Long Remember (1942)
  • The Outlaw Echo (1942, as Clark South)
  • The Time Mirror (1942, as Clark South)
  • The Perfect Husband (1943)
  • The Persian Carpet (1943)
  • Drummers of Daugavo (1943)
  • The Hands of Ali Jinnah (1947)
  • Cry chaos! (1951)
  • Dark Destiny (1952)
  • So Many Worlds Away ... (1952)
  • The Weapon from Eternity (1952)
  • The Transposed Man (1953)
    • German: The shapeshifter. Pabel Utopia # 75, 1956. Also as: Zauberkreis Science Fiction # 173, 1976.
  • Planet of Dread (1954)
  • The Terror Out of Space (1954)
  • Terror Station (1955)
    • German: Station of Terror. Magic Circle Science Fiction # 185, 1977.
  • Enemy of the Qua (1956)
  • Bring Back My Brain! (1957)
  • The Horde from Infinity (1957)
  • Battle Out of Time (1957)
    • German: meeting point Knossos. Kelter (Gemini Science Fiction # 36), 1977.
  • You Can't Buy Eternity! (1957)
  • Stay out of space! (1958)
  • Giant Killer (1958)
  • Takeover (1994)
Non-fiction
  • Tricks & Techniques of the Selling Writer (1965, also as Techniques of the Selling Writer , 1974)
  • Film Scriptwriting: A Practical Manual (1976)
  • Scripting for Video and Audiovisual Media (1981, reissued as Scripting for the New AV Technologies , 1991)
  • Creating Characters: How to Build Story People (1990)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame ( November 8, 2016 memento on the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Swain, Dwight V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swain, Dwight Vreeland (full name); Cleve, John (pseudonym); South, Clark (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1992
Place of death Norman , Oklahoma