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Marian O'Hearn

5 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
January 1940 9 Short Fiction Soldiers of the Black Goat Unknown, January 1940
July 1940 129 Serial The Spark of Allah (Part 1 of 3) Unknown, July 1940
August 1940 131 Serial The Spark of Allah (Part 2 of 3) Unknown, August 1940
September 1940 156 Essay Letter (Unknown, September 1940) Unknown Fantasy Fiction, September 1940
September 1940 134 Serial The Spark of Allah (Part 3 of 3) Unknown Fantasy Fiction, September 1940

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2016 Retro Hugo Award Best Novella Soldiers of the Black Goat Nominee

Eric Leif Davin's "Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965" and Victoria Lamont's "Westerns: A Women's History" state that this author's real name was Anita Allen (an "Anita Allen" was credited in some pulp issues where Marian O'Hearn's stories also appeared.) However, according to Delia O'Hara's blog, Marian O'Hearn was her aunt's real name. She was born in Massachusetts, worked as a sports editor (as Judy O'Hearn) and wrote for romance, noir, and western pulps. According to Will Murray's article ''The Unknown Unknown'', in February 1941 John W. Campbell Jr. purchased O'Hearn's "No Soul, No Death", a 42,000 word novel, for ''Unknown'', but it wasn't published.