Wichita State University where he played football and graduated with a degree States when he was a boy and eventually settled in Wichita, Kansas. Wellman after an uncle who fought in the Civil War likely contributing to his fascination with the subject.
His mother was American, however, and she reportedly named History and folklore-a background far removed from the American South. Grew up speaking the native dialect and listening to renditions of African Village in Portuguese West Africa (now Angola) to a British medical officer. He was actually born in 1903 in Kamundongo, a small Despite hisįondness for the region to which he dedicated so much of his writing, Wellman was notĪ native southerner.
Wellman’s life story is a fantastic one and his enthusiasmįor people and culture are directly reflected in his fiction. Stephan King dedicated his 1981 horror retrospective Danse Macabre to Wellman along with horror masters Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Wandrei, and Frank Belknap Long. Wellman’s nonfiction Civil War history, Rebel Boast: First at Bethel, Last at Appomattox was nominated for the He won for his story, “A Star for a Warrior,” which famously beat out Williamįaulkner’s “An Error in Chemistry.” Faulkner was furious about losing and made Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award, two World Fantasy Awards, The Britishįantasy Award, and the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award (1946) which Among his numerous accolades are the Mystery
Published over three hundred stories and essays and dozens of books in a career
Wellman’s named is spelled “Manley” instead of Manly, a mistake the authorĮncountered often throughout his career. Tales in August of 1939 and later in his career retrospective Worse Things Waiting (Carcosa Press, 1973), which won the World FantasyĪward for Best Collection at the inaugural World Fantasy Convention, held in the fall of 1975 in Providence, Rhode Island, home of influential Weird Tales writer H.P. Still,” which originally appeared in Weird Teleplay is an adaptation of Manly Wade Wellman’s story, “The Valley Was
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