Allen J. Hubin: Difference between revisions
Jamesmcardle (talk | contribs) created artifice Allen J. Hubin |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 04:58, 20 July 2021
{{ | name = Allen J. Hubin | image = | alt = Allen J. Hubin | caption = | occupation = Literary criticism, encyclopedist, anthologist, bibliographer | birth_date = 5 March 1936 | death_date = | birth_place = Crosby, Minnesota | death_place = | notable_works = The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749-1975 }}
Allen J. Hubin, born on March 5 , 1936 in Crosby, Minnesota, in the United States, is a historian of crime fiction American, a literary critic and anthologist American author of a bibliography of crime fiction.[1]
Biography
Hubin studied at Wheaton College and the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1961 .
A passionate collector of detective literature, in 1967 he founded the first American magazine devoted to the genre, The Armchair Detective. In 1968 , he replaced Anthony Boucher at The New York Times Book Review to write the column “Criminals at Large”.[2] He worked there until 1971 and by 1972 was reviewer for the Star Tribune[3][4]
Hubin's personal library of crime novels was of assistance to Ordean Hagen in assembling the first bibliography of English-language crime fiction, Who Done It in 1969.[5] Hubin wrote the introduction.
For several years, he collected the best short stories of the year in anthologies published under the title Best Detective Stories of the Year .
His best-known work is the production of The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749-1975,[6] published in 1979 by University Extension University of California, San Diego in Cooperation with Publisher’s Inc., Del Mar, California, revised and re-released as Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography[7] The bibliography lists all publications in the genre in English. Updates incorporating places, films, screenwriters and directors were made in the 1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography and published by Garland in 1988 before Crime Fiction II: A Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-1990 came out in 1994 in two volumes.
Bibliography
Best of the Best Detective Stories: 25th Anniversary Collection (1971)[8] The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749-1975 (1979) Armchair Detective (1981)[9] Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1983) The Armchair Detective: The First Ten Years (1986) 1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction (1988) Crime Fiction II: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-1990 (1994) Sources
References
- ^ Claude Mesplède ( dir. ), Dictionary of detective literatures , vol. 1: A - I , Nantes, Joseph K, coll. "Dark time",2007, 1054 p. ( ISBN 978-2-910-68644-4 , OCLC 315873251 ) , p. 1011
- ^ Hubin, Allen J, Criminals At Large, [publisher not identified], retrieved 20 July 2021
- ^ Star Tribune, Sunday, July 02, 1972, p.51
- ^ Star Tribune, Sunday 21 May 1978, p.80
- ^ Hagen, Ordean A (1969), Who done it? : A guide to detective, mystery, and suspense fiction, R.R. Bowker, retrieved 20 July 2021
- ^ Hubin, Allen J (1979), The bibliography of crime fiction, 1749-1975 : listing of all mystery, detective, suspense, police, and gothic fiction in book form published in the English language, University Extension, University of California, San Diego, ISBN 978-0-89163-048-7
- ^ Hubin, Allen J. (1984). Crime fiction, 1749-1980 : a comprehensive bibliography. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN 0-8240-9219-8. OCLC 10020616.
- ^ Allen J Hubin (1971) Best of the best detective stories : 25th anniversary collection, New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- ^ Hubin, Allen J (1967), The armchair detective, Allen J. Hubin, retrieved 20 July 2021