Greye La Spina

Greye La Spina

Infobox Writer
name = Greye La Spina


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pseudonym = Isra Putnam
birthdate = birth date|1880|7|10|mf=y
birthplace = Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S.
deathdate = death date|1969|9|17|mf=y
deathplace =
occupation = writer, playwright
nationality = U.S.
period = 1919 to 1926
genre = horror, Fantasy, Detective fiction

Greye La Spina (1880 – 1969) was an American writer of over 100 published serials, novelettes, one-act plays and short stories.

Her stories appeared in Metropolitan, Black Mask, Action Stories, Ten-Story Book, The Thrill Book, Weird Tales, Modern Marriage, Top-Notch Magazine, All-Story, Photoplay, and many other magazines.

Biography

La Spina was born Fanny Greye Bragg on July 10, 1880 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Her father waw a Methodist clergeyman. She was married to Ralph Geissler in 1898 and gave birth to a daughter, Celia, two years later. The following year, her husband died. In 1910 she married Baron Robert La Spina, an Italian aristocrat.

Her first supernatural story, "The Wolf on the Steppes" was sold to Thrill Book in 1919. She won second place in Photoplay magazine's 1921 short story contest gaining her a $2,500 prize. Her first book, Invaders from the Dark, was published by Arkham House in 1960.

References

*cite book | last=Ruber| first=Peter | title=Arkham's Masters of Horror | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=224-228 | date=2000 | id=ISBN 0-87054-177-3


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