Cline, Leonard, 1893-1929
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found: Dark chamber, 1972:t.p. (Leonard Cline)
found: OCLC, 10/26/95:(hdgs.: Cline, Leonard, 1893-1929; Cline, Leonard Lanson, 1893-1929; usage: Leonard Cline)
found: The lady of frozen death and other weird tales, c1992:t.p. (Leonard Cline, writing as Alan Forsyth)
found: La estancia oscupa, 2002:title page (by Leonard Cline) title page verso (translated into Spanish by Santiago Garcia)
found: Wikipedia, 15 April 2016(Leonard Cline; Leonard Lanson Cline (born 11 May 1893 in Bay City, Michigan; died 15/16 January 1929) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, and journalist; he published his first book of poetry, Poems, in 1914 and worked for The Detroit News from 1916 until 1922; in 1922 he began a job with the Baltimore Sun; his writings were published in a variety of magazines: The New Republic, The American Mercury, The Smart Set, The Nation and Scribner's Magazine; his journalist work was published in the Baltimore Sun, The New York World, The Chicago Daily News, The New York Herald Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch; the Viking Press published his first novel, God Head in 1925; in 1926 he published the humorous novel Listen, Moon!; in 1927 he published The Dark Chamber, arguably his most famous work; he also published stories in pulp magazines using the pseudonym Alan Forsyth (six of these stories are collected in The Lady of Frozen Death and Other Weird Tales, published in 1992); Cline was also a translator, translating Thomas Raucat's The Honourable Picnic from the French; in 1927, during a drunken quarrel, Cline shot his friend Wilfred Irwin, who died of his wounds several hours later; Cline was tried and sentenced to a year in prison for manslaughter; he was released after eight months for good behavior; Henry Luce gave Cline a job at Time when he got out of prison; on the evening of 15 January 1929, Cline hosted a party at his New York City apartment to celebrate the sale of a scenario for a play; Cline complained to friends at the party about having chest pains; he was found dead of heart failure in his apartment five days later, not having been seen alive since the night of the party)
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