![]() ![]() The couple had one son, William Sanders Vinyard. Counselman taught creative writing at Gadsden State Junior College (present-day Gadsden State Community College). In 1941, she married Horace Benton Vinyard, and the couple settled in Gadsden, Etowah County, living on the Leota, their paddle-wheel steamboat on the Coosa River across from present-day Moragne Park. She attended Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) and the University of Alabama, and then took a job as a reporter for the Birmingham News. ![]() Several stories take place on tenant farms built from decaying former slave quarters, and her urban settings suggest the larger cities in her native Alabama rather than the Northern or West Coast metropolises of other pulp writers.Ĭounselman was born November 19, 1911, in Birmingham, Jefferson County, to Nettie Yonque McCrorey and John Sanders Counselman, an engineering teacher. Gentler and less gruesome than that of her peers, her writing reflects her birth on a plantation, her time at the University of Alabama, and her experience as a reporter for the state’s largest newspaper. ![]() She remains best known for her 30 horror and fantasy short stories in the long-running American pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales. Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1911-1995) was a fiction writer and poet whose work appeared in such popular periodicals as Good Housekeeping, Colliers, and The Saturday Evening Post. ![]()
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