RF Starzl

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Roman "Rome" Frederick Starzl (born December 10, 1899 in Le Mars , Iowa ; died April 8, 1976 there ) was an American science fiction author, journalist and newspaper publisher.

Life

The Starzls family came from Germany. He was the son of John V. Starzl (1865-1932) and Margaret Starzl, née Theisen. His father was a local newspaper publisher, initially editor of the German-language Der Herold , then of the Le Mars Globe Post . Starzl began training in his father's printing shop. In 1917 he graduated from Le Mars High School . He served as a soldier in World War I , most recently with the rank of corporal . He then studied for a year at Northwestern University , worked for three years in the advertising department of the Chicago Tribune, and in 1923 he worked for his father's newspaper. In the same year he married Anna Laura Fitzgerald, from this marriage the surgeon Thomas E. Starzl comes .

In 1928 the first science fiction story Out of the Sub-Universe appeared in the summer edition of the Amazing Stories Quarterly , which was also translated into German as a foray into the microcosm . It is about the journey of a man and a woman into the subatomic world, from which hundreds of their descendants return after half an hour of earthly time, since millions of years have passed in the subatomic world. By 1935, over two dozen other short stories had appeared in the pulp magazines of the era, in addition to Amazing Stories also in Wonder Stories and Argosy . In some of these stories the Interplanetary Flying Police plays a role, which will fight crime on different planets in the future. This group of narratives includes The Globoid Terror (1930) and The Power Satellite (1932).

After he had succeeded in becoming a partner and ultimately owner of the family newspaper, among other things through his income as an SF writer, Starzl stopped writing stories and from then on worked as an editor, publisher and columnist . Politically, he represented positions of the Democrats , but was an opponent of the New Deal , which was also expressed in his column Between Deals .

In 1962 Starzl suffered the first of a series of strokes. After the death of his first wife in 1947, he was married to Rita Kenaly in 1948, who from then on published the newspaper. In 1964 the newspaper's printing plant was destroyed by fire and the Starzls were forced to sell the company to the owners of Le Mars Daily Sentinel . For the last 14 years of his life, Starzl was bedridden. He has spent the last five years in a nursing home. He died in 1976 at the age of 76. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Le Mars.

bibliography

Short stories
  • Out of the Sub-Universe (1928)
  • The Eye of Prometheus (1930)
  • Madness of the Dust (1930)
  • The Planet of Dread (1930)
  • The King of the Black Bowl (1930)
  • The Red Germ of Courage (1930)
  • Hornets of Space (1930)
  • The Globoid Terror (1930)
  • The Terrors of Aryl (1931)
  • The Earthman's Burden (1931)
  • The Man Who Changed the Future (1931)
  • The Planet of Despair (1931)
  • If the Sun Died (1931)
  • A 20th Century Medusa (1931)
  • In the Orbit of Saturn (1931)
  • The Moon Drug (1931)
  • The Metal Moon (1931, with Everett C. Smith)
  • Prison Planet (1932)
  • The Martian Cabal (1932, with Everett C. Smith)
  • The Power Satellite (1932)
  • The Venus Germ (1932, with Festus Pragnell)
  • The Radiant Enemies (1934)
  • The Last Planet (1934)
  • Dimension of the Conquered (1934)
  • World Tube Murders (1935)

literature

Web links

Commons : Roman Frederick Starzl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Globe-Post publisher Rome Starzl, science-fiction-writer, dead at 76. Obituary in: Le Mars Daily Sentinel , edition of April 9, 1976, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fimages.findagrave.com%2Fphotos%2F2013%2F303%2F119510190_138325182538.jpg~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D .
personal data
SURNAME Starzl, RF
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starzl, Roman Frederick (full name); Starzl, Rome (alternative spelling); Starzl, Romanus Frederick (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer, journalist and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Mars , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1976
Place of death Le Mars , Iowa