Raylyn Moore
Raylyn Thyrza Moore (born January 5, 1928 in Waynesville , Ohio ; died February 27, 2005 in Pacific Grove , California ) was an American writer .
Life
Moore's parents James Byrl Crabbe and Ethelyn Coverston were both teachers. She studied at Ohio State University , where she did her bachelor's degree in 1949 , and at San José State University , where she completed her master's degree in 1971 . She had three children from a first marriage and one other child with science fiction writer Ward Moore , whom she married in 1967. From 1949 to 1964 she was a reporter for various newspapers, from 1966 to 1968 editor at Executive Housekeeping and from 1969 lecturer in creative writing at Monterey Peninsula College .
She began publishing short stories in 1954 when the short story Death Is a Woman appeared in Esquire magazine. From 1970, they turned to science fiction to 1978 appeared to her first and only SF novel, What Happened to Emily Goode After the Great Exhibition , in which the protagonist as time travelers , the World Expo 1876 in Philadelphia visited.
In 1974 Wonderful Wizard Marvelous Land was published , a study of Lyman Frank Baum's World of Oz , which Richard Carl Tuerk described as groundbreaking.
bibliography
- Novels
- Mock Orange (1968)
- What Happened to Emily Goode After the Great Exhibition (1978)
- Non-fiction
- Wonderful Wizard Marvelous Land (1974)
- Short stories
- They All Ran After the Farmer's Wife (1970)
- Out of Control (1970)
- A Different Drummer (1971)
- If Something Begins (1971)
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Lobster Trick (1972)
- English: the lobster trick. 1974.
- Poverello (1973)
- Where Have All the Followers Gone? (1973)
- Trigononomy (1973)
- Thaumaturge (1974)
- Shoes (1974)
- Fun Palace (1975)
- The Milewide Steamroller (1975)
- Valentino, Bogart, Dean and Other Ghosts (1975, with John Penney)
- Fair Eleanor is Dead (1976)
- A Modular Story (1976)
- The Castle (1976)
- Life Among the Anthropologists (1976)
- Man Volant (1977)
- Strix (1977)
- Getting Back to Before It Began (1977)
-
The House Sitters (1977)
- German: The House Guardians. 1981.
- A Certain Slant of Light (1978)
- The Ark Among the Flags (1978)
- The Way Back (1978)
- No Left Turn, No Right Turn, No Thorofare (No Parking, No Backing up) (1978)
- Standoff (1979)
- The Recycling of Ardella Rudneff (1980)
-
Falling (1980)
- German: Fall. 1983.
-
Running Easy in the Dream of Wilderness (1983)
- German: Wildnistraum. 1984.
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 300 f.
- John Clute , David Langford : Moore, Raylyn. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
- Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 1004.
Web links
- Raylyn Moore in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Raylyn Moore at Open Library
- Raylyn Moore on Oz Wiki (accessed June 5, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Carl Tuerk: Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books. McFarland, Jefferson, NC 2007, p. 210.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Raylyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, Raylyn Thyrza (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waynesville , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 2005 |
| Place of death | Pacific Grove , California |