Miriam Allen deFord (1888–1975)
Author of Xenogenesis
About the Author
Works by Miriam Allen deFord
The Malley System [short fiction] 6 copies
Rope's End (short story) 4 copies
Oh, Rats! 3 copies
Un passo avanti e due indietro — Contributor — 3 copies
Penultimates, poems 2 copies
Not Snow Nor Rain 2 copies
The Margenes 2 copies
Walking Alone [short story] 2 copies
Time Out for Redheads 1 copy
The Theme is Murder 1 copy
Beast in View {short story} 1 copy
5,000,000 A.D. {short story} 1 copy
Waiting for the Ax 1 copy
No Loose Ends 1 copy
The Last Generation? 1 copy
Miriam Allen deFord 1 copy
Associated Works
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Contributor — 1,927 copies
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (2013) — Contributor — 173 copies
The Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Storie s By Women: A Library of America… (2022) — Contributor — 78 copies
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 6: Neanderthals (1987) — Contributor — 66 copies
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994) — Contributor — 62 copies
To the Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment; Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the… (1946) — Contributor — 24 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XC, No. 4 (December 1972) (1972) — Contributor — 23 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1974, Vol. 46, No. 6 (1974) — Contributor, some editions — 16 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1969, Vol. 37, No. 5 (1969) — Contributor — 14 copies
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Contributor — 13 copies
Special Wonder: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1970) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Winter-Spring 1950, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1950) — Contributor — 7 copies
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Contributor — 4 copies
Killers of the Mind: A Collection of Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1974) — Contributor — 4 copies
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contributor — 3 copies
Women Resurrected: Stories from Women Science Fiction Writers of the 50's (2011) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- deFord, Miriam Allen
- Other names
- Ford, Miriam Allen de
deFord, Miriam A.
deFord, Miriam - Birthdate
- 1888-08-21
- Date of death
- 1975-02-22
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Place of death
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Places of residence
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Occupations
- reporter
editor
birth control advocate
science fiction writer
mystery writer
civil rights activist (show all 7)
feminist - Relationships
- Fort, Charles (correspondent)
- Short biography
- Miriam Allen De Ford (or deFord) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began her writing career as a newspaper reporter. She joined the early feminist movement in the USA and campaigned to distribute birth control information to women. With her first husband, Maynard Shipley, she also fought against the evolution deniers of the 1920s. She did field work for Charles Fort, the researcher into alleged paranormal phenomena. She was also active in civil rights organizations, including the ACLU.
During the 1920s, she wrote for a number of left-wing magazines including The Masses. However, she's best known as a prolific writer of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery stories. The sci-fi and fantasy were originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and later collected in volumes such as Xenogenesis (1969) and Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow (1971). Her mystery short stories, which originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, were collected in The Theme Is Murder (1967). She also wrote about true crime, such as the Leopold and Loeb case and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow; she won an Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime for her book The Overbury Affair (1960), about a 17th century English case.
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- 48
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- Members
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- Popularity
- #91,698
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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