{"id":25883,"date":"2019-05-25T05:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T02:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25883"},"modified":"2019-05-25T05:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T02:36:43","slug":"the-sacking-of-farnsworth-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/the-sacking-of-farnsworth-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"The sacking of Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was Farnsworth Wright actually fired from <em>Weird Tales<\/em>?  Don Herron is <a href=\"https:\/\/donherron.com\/rediscovered-correctomundo-once-more\/\">on the case<\/a> and digs up what seems to be a clincher of a quote.  In which case, he muses&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u2014 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\u2019t have been unceremoniously kicked to the kerb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A couple of days later Don posted <a href=\"https:\/\/donherron.com\/rediscovered-more-on-the-firing-of-farnsworth-wright\/\">More on the Firing of Farnsworth Wright<\/a>, which picks up the notoriously inaccurate Wikipedia on what is apparently yet another inaccuracy, namely that&#8230; &#8220;Wright\u2019s failing health forced him to resign as editor during 1940&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know enough about this end of the <em>Weird Tales<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Farnsworth Wright actually fired from Weird Tales? Don Herron is on the case and digs up what seems to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/the-sacking-of-farnsworth-wright\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}