Mona Farnsworth
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Mona Farnsworth | |
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| Born | March 31, 1897  |
| Died | September 1, 1984 (aged 87) |
| Spouse(s) | Reginald Grant Barrow |
Muriel Ives Newhall (June 8, 1904 – July 1981) was an American writer who wrote primarily under the penname Mona Farnsworth. She was a prolific writer of stories for pulp magazines and wrote a series of gothic novels.
She was born Muriel Ives on June 8, 1904, the daughter of Howard Colby Ives, a Unitarian minister who became an early adherent of the Baháʼí faith in the United States, and his first wife, Beth Hoyt.[1]
In the late 1930s she was probably the most frequent contributor to Romantic Range, a Western romance pulp magazine, sometimes contributing as many as three stories an issue using different pseudonyms. Her most memorable creation was the Sherriff Minnie, a middle-aged woman who fought for the law in men's clothing and fended off her frequent suitor, Peter Whittlesley.[2][3]
She also contributed a number of stories to the first two years of Unknown, John W. Campbell's science fiction pulp magazine: "Who Wants Power?" (a pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy"[4]), "Whatever", "The Joker", "All Roads", and "Are You There?" Campbell selected "All Roads" to represent Unknown in the Sam Moskowitz anthology Editor's Choice in Science Fiction (1954).[5]