Francis Stevens
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(September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948)
Gertrude Mabel Barrows Bennett was the first major female writer of SF and fantasy in the United States, publishing many stories under the pseudonym of Francis Stevens. She wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy."
Her first story, "The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar," was published when she was 20, in the March 1904 issue of Argosy under the byline "G. M. Barrows." Although the initials disguised her gender, this appears to be the first instance in the U.S. of a female author both publishing science fiction and using her real name.
| Person | 1884—1948 |
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