Was Farnsworth Wright actually fired from Weird Tales? Don Herron is on the case and digs up what seems to be a clincher of a quote. In which case, he muses…

A few tweaks to the timeline and Farny [Farnsworth Wright] could have had HPL [Lovecraft] spearheading a legion of young apprentices in the [Weird Tales] pulp — which he was doing already by the mid-30s. Robert Bloch. Kuttner. Fritz Leiber was about to jump in, too. I wonder what that crew might have done if Lovecraft had lived, given what they did do? Perhaps [in that case] Wright wouldn’t have been unceremoniously kicked to the kerb.

A couple of days later Don posted More on the Firing of Farnsworth Wright, which picks up the notoriously inaccurate Wikipedia on what is apparently yet another inaccuracy, namely that… “Wright’s failing health forced him to resign as editor during 1940”.

I don’t know enough about this end of the Weird Tales years to be able to sift all the ramifying data points, but on the face of it there does seem to have been a sacking rather than a resignation. But I think that what we really need here is a good full archive-researched book-length biography of Wright.