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Name: LONG, Frank Belknap
Aged: 90
Born: April 27, 1903 (SS has 1901)
Where: New York, NY
Died: January 3, 1994
Where: New York, NY
Interred: Woodlawn Cem. Bronx, NY
Married: Lyda Arco
When: August 19, 1960
Awarded: 1976 World Fantasy Special Award for Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side, 1979 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Frank Belknap Long
Attended New York University in 1920-21, but influenced by an early friendship with H. P. Lovecraft, Long opted to forego formal education and become a free-lance writer, selling his first story to Weird Tales at age 21. The resulting career would span 60 years and heavily influence that body of fiction which floats above the three legged stool of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction.
Long's early arrival on the scene and his attachment to, what would become, a legendary figure in H. P. Lovecraft, prompted Jeff Elliot, in an interview for Fantasy Newsletter, to ask about Long's pivotal position: Frank answered, "If, in your youth, you devote all of your creative energies to a still largely unplowed field, you'll reshape it to some extent, and, occasionally, here and there, if you're very lucky, to a pivotal extent."
PEN NAME: Lyda Belknap Long and Leslie Northern
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mine here.
BIOGRAPHY: Supernatural Fiction Writers, E. F. Bleiler
and, Contemporary Authors, New Rev. Series, Vol 16, p233-4
OBITUARY: New York Times, January 5, 1994, pD21 (w photo). But a copy of the obit in The Sacramento Bee, here.
