Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:21:09 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Nancy Drew Author Dies
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 05/29/02 10:38PM
>>"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
>
>> ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>> > Unless I am mistaken, my mother used to read Nancy Drew mysteries
>> > when she was a young girl.  It would have never occurred to me to
>> > think that the author was still living after so long.
>>
>> Some people start writing at an early age and live a long time.
>>
>> Robert Heinlein started writing after he was declared seriously ill
>> and permanently disabled.  He lived nearly 60 more years, making lots
>> of money, and outliving his doomsaying doctor by half a century.
>>
>> The producer of Little Rascals, Hal Roach, outlived most of the
>> children featured in those short movies, most of which were made
>> before either of my parents were born.  He died in the 1990s.
>>
>> The philosopher/writer/mathematician Bertrand Russell wrote from the
>> 19th century into the 1970s.
>>
>> Jack Williamson is a science fiction author who has been writing for
>> 75 years.  He was born in Arizona Territory in 1908, and he moved
>> to New Mexico in a covered wagon in 1915.  He's still living in New
>> Mexico and is still writing.
>
>Yup.  And Georgette Heyer sold her first novel (THE BLACK MOTH) while =
still
>in her teens and wrote successfully throughout her long life.    I think =
the
>Nancy Drew mysteries first appeared in the early '30s -- roughly 60 years
>ago.
>
>--Ted White
>
Add Hugh B. Cave to the list. Born 1910, first professional sale in 1932 =
to a pulp named Brief Stories, most recently a novel last year.  Over the =
decades he has written in a variety of genres(but lots of the Werrd Tales =
type), along with non-fiction.

mjw