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Paul S. Powers (1905-1971) was a writer of Western pulp fiction during the 1920s through the 1940s. He also wrote stories of several other genres, including horror, detective, noir, and even romance. Several of his very first stories were published in WEIRD TALES in 1925-26. He was also the author of the novel DOC DILLAHAY, published by Macmillan Company in 1949. He was also a rare book collector and known expert on Western Americana.
From 1928 to 1943, Paul pounded out 12,000 word blood and thunder novelettes every week for WILD WEST WEEKLY, one of America's most popular pulp Western magazines. Many of the stories were published under his pseudonym Ward M. Stevens, but occasionally stories were published under his own name. Many of the stories featured his wildly popular characters Sonny Tabor, Kid Wolf, and Johnny Forty-five, Freckles Malone, and King Kolt. Paul wrote approximately 440 stories for WILD WEST WEEKLY.
Paul also wrote short stories for other Western magazines, including WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE, THIRLLING WESTERN, EXCITING WESTERN, RIO KID WESTERN, TEXAS RANGERS and RANGE RIDERS MAGAZINE. In 1943, Paul wrote a memoir, PULP WRITER: TWENTY YEARS IN THE AMERICAN GRUB STREET, about his career as a pulp fiction writer, but it was not published at the time.
Paul Powers died in 1971. His personal papers, which included the PULP WRITER manuscript, were packed away in two boxes and stored in his daughter Pat's attic. In 1999, 28 years after his death and 56 years after it was written, the manuscript was rediscovered by Pat and Paul's granddaughter Laurie. PULP WRITER was published by The University of Nebraska Press in 2007. It includes a prologue and epilogue written by Laurie that detail her family history, finding the manuscript and a introduction to pulp fiction magazines.
LAURIE POWERS
Laurie Powers, granddaughter of Paul Powers, is a writer based in Virginia. After publishing her grandfather's memoir, Laurie tackled the long-neglected subject of romance pulp fiction, and researched the life of Daisy Bacon, the editor of LOVE STORY MAGAZINE from 1928-1947. QUEEN OF THE PULPS is the result of seven years of research and writing, and includes over 80 photographs, extensive citations and a bibliography.
