Tevis Clyde Smith

Tevis Clyde Smith, Jr.
Born (1908-02-11)February 11, 1908
Died December 1984 (1985-01) (aged 76)
Occupation Short story writer, amateur publisher
Nationality United States
Genre Fantasy

Tevis Clyde Smith, Jr. (19081984) was an American historian, fantasy writer, poet and amateur publisher, best known for his association with Robert E. Howard. Most of his writing appeared as by Tevis Clyde Smith; he also wrote as T. C. Smith, Jr., and under his full name, Tevis Clyde Smith, Jr. He lived in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas.

Writing career

Smith self-published several chapbooks on the history, biography and genealogy of Brown County, Texas, and others of his poetry and short fiction. As a young man he collaborated on three short stories with Robert E. Howard. Late writings focused on his association with Howard.

Smith and Howard

The Howard/Smith novelette "Red Blades of Black Cathay" was the cover story on the February-March 1831 issue of Oriental Stories

Smith met Robert E. Howard while both attended Brownwood High School and they remained friends until Howard's death. At the time, Smith was publishing a small amateur journal. He and Howard collaborated on a story that was meant to run in Smith's magazine, Under the Great Tiger, though they abandoned the project.[1] Smith did other collaborations with Howard, one of which they sold to the magazine Oriental Stories. Several of their collaborations were collected in Red Blades of Black Cathay, published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1971.

Bibliography

History

Biography

Other nonfiction

Fiction

Poetry

References

  1. de Camp, L. Sprague; Catherine Crook de Camp, Jane Whittington Griffin (1983). Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard. New York: Bluejay Books. p. 166. ISBN 0-312-94074-2. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)

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