Some Significant Contributors & Other Writers of Interest
The most influential and best known of the detective pulps, what’s surprising about the following list of contributors to the legendary Black Mask is not only who’s on it (Louis L’Amour? Max Brand?), but who isn’t, or how few times some of those we instantly associate with the venerable mag actually made the cut.
- Cleve F. Adams (6 stories)
- Dwight V. Babcock (21 stories)
- W. T. Ballard (43 stories)
- Max Brand (9 stories)
- Katherine Brocklebank (7 stories)
- John K. Butler (11 stories)
- Paul Cain (17 stories)
- Hugh B. Cave (9 stories)
- D.L. Champion (30 stories)
- Raymond Chandler (11 stories)
- Merle Constiner (12 stories)
- George Harmon Coxe (27 stories)
- Carroll John Daly (60 stories)
- Norbert Davis (13 stories)
- Ramon DeColta (24 stories)
- Lester Dent (2 stories)
- Bruno Fischer (5 stories)
- Steve Fisher (9 stories)
- Erle Stanley Gardner (103 stories)
- William Campbell Gault (7 stories)
- Frank Gruber (14 stories)
- Brett Haliday (2 stories)
- Dashiell Hammett (49 stories)
- Baynard H. Kendrick (14 stories)
- Louis L’Amour (1 story)
- John Lawrence (14 stories)
- John D. MacDonald (6 stories)
- Horace McCoy (17 stories)
- Robert Martin (8 stories)
- Frederick Nebel (67 stories)
- Robert Reeves (10 stories)
- Stewart Sterling (12 stories)
- Herbert Stinson (27 stories)
- Eric Taylor (7 stories)
- Roger Torrey (50 stories)
- Donald Wandrei (6 stories)
- Raoul Whitfield (66 stories)
- Cornell Woolrich (24 stories)
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Respectfully compiled by Kevin Burton Smith. Anyone interested in submitting a biography of any of the above authors is urged to contact the editor.
