Gertrude Barrows Bennett
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"Francis Stevens" redirects here. For other uses, see Francis Stevens (disambiguation).
Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 ā February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering American author of fantasy and science fiction.[3] Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 1917 and 1923[4] and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy".[5]
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Gertrude Barrows Bennett | |
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Born | Gertrude Mabel Barrows September 18, 1884[1] Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Died | February 2, 1948(1948-02-02) (aged 63) San Francisco, California[2] |
Pen name | Francis Stevens |
Occupation | Writer, stenographer |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1917ā23 (fiction writer) |
Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
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Spouse | Stewart Bennett Carl Franklin Gaster |
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Her most famous books include Claimed (which Augustus T. Swift, in a letter to The Argosy called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read")[lower-alpha 1] and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear.
Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919).[7]