Donald Wandrei
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Donald Wandrei (April 20, 1908–1987) was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei.
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[edit] Biography and Writing Career
Wandrei was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1928, with a BA in English. Wandrei started writing in 1926 and his writing career took off around 1932. He was active in pulp magazines until the late 1930s. He was a member of the "Lovecraft Circle," corresponding with H. P. Lovecraft and other members of the circle (Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, etc). He contributed two stories to the Cthulhu Mythos: "The Fire Vampires" (1933) and "The Tree-Men of M'Bwa" (1933). Wandrei and August Derleth later co-founded the publishing house Arkham House to keep Lovecraft's legacy alive. After World War II he continued writing speculative fiction stories, although at a greatly reduced rate.
He died in St. Paul in 1987.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- The Web of Easter Island (1948)
[edit] Collections
- Ecstasy & Other Poems (The Recluse Press, 1928; ltd to 322 copies)
- Dark Odyssey (Webb Publishing Co, 1931; ltd to 400 copies) - poems, with five illustrations by Howard Wandrei
- The Eye and the Finger (Arkham House, 1944)
- Poems for Midnight (Arkham House, 1964) - poems
- Strange Harvest (Arkham House, 1965)
- Collected Poems (Necronomicon Press, 1988) - edited by S.T. Joshi; illustrated by Howard Wandrei OCLC 21630466
- Colossus (Philip J Rahman & Dennis E Weiler, eds. Fedogan & Bremer, 1989) ISBN 1878252003 An expanded 2nd ed. was issued in 1999, adding two stories ("A Stranger Passes" & "If"), plus an updated intro & photo gallery ISBN 1878252453
- Don't Dream: The Collected Fantasy and Horror of Donald Wandrei (Philip J Rahman & Dennis E Weiler, eds. Fedogan & Bremer, 1997) ISBN 1878252275
- Frost (F & B Mystery, 2000) ISBN 1878252429
- Three Mysteries (F & B Mystery, 2000) OCLC 51309341
- Mysteries of Time & Spirit: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft & Donald Wandrei (S. T. Joshi & David E Schultz, eds.;Night Shade Books, 2002) ISBN 1892389495
