Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher, actually William Anthony Parker White, ( born August 21, 1911 in Oakland, California, † April 29, 1968 ) was an American science fiction and mystery author.

Life

Boucher attended the University of Southern California and later studied at the University of California at Berkeley; 1932 B. A., 1934 M. A. in German. From his Zeil language teacher / translator to be, he came from, and looked after the Second World War as a journalist and literary critic.

Eight days before his 57th birthday Anthony Boucher died of lung cancer.

Works

On March 26, 1945 Boucher founded with Clayton Rawson, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday literary association Mystery Writers of America ( MWA). From 1951 he wrote until his death in 1968, the weekly column " Criminals at Large " in the New York Book Review and thus became the most quoted critic of detective novels.

Boucher became known for his detective novels and the first English-language translator of Jorge Luis Borges. He was one of the authors of the successful radio radio drama series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the weitersponnen with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the experiences of the speakers created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective and his partner Dr. Watson.

Together with J. Francis McComas 1949 he founded the science fiction magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and served until 1958 as its editor. His goal was with the magazine to promote the literary quality of sci-fi. For this he received the 1957 and 1958 Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine. He wrote in 1941 science fiction stories including in 1951 his most famous The Quest for Saint Aquin ( German: In the Footsteps of St. Aquinas. ).

Honors

Works (selection)

Novels

Short story collections

Editorship

  • Best Detective Stories of the Year (Eng. The best detective stories of the year, Munich 1965)
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