Laura Spencer Portor Pope

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Laura Spencer Portor Pope (4 February 1872 – 1957) was an American journalist and author of short stories and several books. She is known as the co-author with Dorothy Giles of two science fiction novels, The valley of creeping men (1930) and Chattering gods (1931), both of which appeared under the pseudonym "Rayburn Crawley."[1]

Biographical facts[]

Laura Spencer Portor married Francis Pope, but she continued to use the name "Laura Spencer Portor" for all her professional publications except the two science novels which she co-authored. She published articles and short stories in Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Magazine, The Outlook, The Dial and several other magazines.[2]

Selected publications[]

  • Shakespeare pamphlets. 1900.; lettering and decorations by Joan D. Manning
  • with Katharine Pyle: Theodora. 1907.; illustrated from drawings by William A. McCullough
  • Greatest books in the world; interpretive studies. With lists of collateral reading helpful to the study of great literature. Houghton Mifflin. 1913.; 2nd edition. Chautauqua Press. 1917.
  • Genevieve; a story of French school days. Little schoolmate series. E.P. Dutton & company. 1914.
  • Story of little angels. Harper & brothers. 1917.
  • Adventures in indigence. The Atlantic monthly press. 1918.
  • "On Living Next to James Huneker". Scribner's Magazine. Vol. 71. 1922. pp. 303–308.
  • Little long-ago. 1927.
  • with Alida Conover as illustrator: New York, the giant city; an introduction to New York. 1939.; 2nd edition. 1953.

References[]

  1. ^ Authors : Crawley, Rayburn : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia, 28 October 2014
  2. ^ "Portor, Laura Spencer (Mrs Francis Pope)". Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature: 501. 1922.

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