LORD REDESDALE (Algernon Freeman-Mitford [1837-1916]) served as Second Secretary in the British Legation at the time of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, and wrote a number of books about his experiences in the Far East. He was created a Baron in 1902. He was the great-uncle of writers Jessica and Nancy Mitford.
ROBERT REGINALD was born in Japan, and lived in many different places in his youth. A retired academic librarian, he now edits the Borgo Press imprint of Wildside Press (1,300+ books), and is the author of 140 volumes of history, criticism, and popular fiction, including the following recent Borgo Press titles: The Phantom’s Phantom (Phantom Detective #1, 2007), The Nasty Gnomes (Phantom Detective #2, 2008), Choice Words: The Borgo Press Book of Writers Writing About Writing (Editor, 2010), Knack’ Attack: A Tale of the Human-Knacker Wars (2010), The Elder of Days: Tales of the Elders (2010), The Judgment of the Gods and Other Verdicts of History (2011), Invasion! Earth vs. the Aliens (War of Two Worlds #1, 2011), Operation Crimson Storm (War of Two Worlds #2, 2011), The Martians Strike Back! (War of Two Worlds #3, 2011), The Paperback Show Murders (2011), Academentia: A Future Dystopia (2011), The Cracks in the Æther (The Hypatomancer’s Tale #1), The Pachyderms’ Lament (The Hypatomancer’s Tale #2), The Fourth Elephant’s Egg (The Hypatomancer’s Tale #3), Yondering: The First Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories (Editor, 2011), To the Stars—and Beyond: The Second Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories (Editor, 2011), Once Upon a Future: The Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories (Editor, 2011), Whodunit? The First Borgo Press Book of Crime and Mystery Stories (Editor, 2011), More Whodunits: The Second Borgo Press Book of Crime and Mystery Stories (Editor, 2011), Melanthrix the Mage (The Hieromonk’s Tale #1), The Christmas Megapack: Yuletide Stories (Editor with Mary Wickizer Burgess and John Gregory Betancourt, 2012), The Second Christmas Megapack: Yuletide Stories (Editor with Mary Wickizer Burgess, 2012), Killingford (The Hieromonk’s Tale #2, 2012), ’Ware the Dark-Haired Man (The Hieromonk’s Tale #3), The Cat Megapack: Frisky Feline Tales, Old and New (Editor with Mary Wickizer Burgess and John Gregory Betancourt, 2013), The Second Cat Megapack: Frisky Feline Tales, Old and New (Editor with Mary Wickizer Burgess, 2013), The Dog Megapack: Curly Canine Tales, Old and New (Editor with Mary Wickizer Burgess, 2013).
PAMELA SARGENT is an award-winning American science fiction, fantasy, and historical writer. Her best-known work is the “Venus Trilogy,” comprising Venus of Dreams (1986), Venus of Shadows (1988), and Child of Venus (2001). Her Borgo Press book, Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories (2012), collects together the separately-published short stories in this award-winning series.
EUGÈNE SCRIBE (1791-1861) was a French dramatist and librettist, the author of over 150 theatrical productions, many of them fantastically popular in his day.
GORDON STABLES (1840-1910) was born in Scotland, and became a doctor in the Royal Navy. Later he penned some 130 highly successful adventure and science fiction novels for boys and young adults, but also contributed a nonfiction book on The Domestic Cat.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909), a British writer, is known today primarily for his poetry and criticism, although he also penned dramas (many of them in verse), stories, and even a novel.
BOOTH TARKINGTON (1869-1946) was an American writer of poetry, criticism, short stories, dramas, and novels. He’s primarily known today for his classic novels, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He’s one of only three writers ever to win more than one Pulitzer Prize for his fiction.
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) is best-known today for his classic American novels, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, but he also wrote hundreds of short works for the popular magazines of his day.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was an American writer, whose reputation is somewhat overshadowed today by his close friend, Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age in 1873. He’s best remembered for his laconic comment (repeated by Twain, to whom it’s often attributed): “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
GEORGE ZEBROWSKI is an award-winning American science fiction writer and editor, best-known for such novels as Macrolife (1979), The Omega Point Trilogy (1972-83), and The Sunspacers Trilogy (1996). Decimated: Ten Science Fiction Stories (Borgo Press, 2012), collects his collaborative stories with Jack Dann.
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