Laura Spencer Portor Pope

Laura Spencer Portor Pope (4 February 1872 – 1957) was an American journalist and author of short stories and several books. She is known as the co-author with Dorothy Giles of two science fiction novels, The valley of creeping men (1930) and Chattering gods (1931), both of which appeared under the pseudonym "Rayburn Crawley."^[1]

Biographical facts

Laura Spencer Portor married Francis Pope, but she continued to use the name "Laura Spencer Portor" for all her professional publications except the two science novels which she co-authored. She published articles and short stories in Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Magazine, The Outlook, The Dial and several other magazines.^[2]

Selected publications

Shakespeare pamphlets. 1900.; lettering and decorations by Joan D. Manning
with Katharine Pyle: Theodora. 1907.; illustrated from drawings by William A. McCullough
Greatest books in the world; interpretive studies. With lists of collateral reading helpful to the study of great literature. Houghton Mifflin. 1913.; 2nd edition. Chautauqua Press. 1917.
Genevieve; a story of French school days. Little schoolmate series. E.P. Dutton & company. 1914.
Story of little angels. Harper & brothers. 1917.
Adventures in indigence. The Atlantic monthly press. 1918.
"On Living Next to James Huneker". Scribner's Magazine. Vol. 71. 1922. pp. 303–308.
Little long-ago. 1927.
with Alida Conover as illustrator: New York, the giant city; an introduction to New York. 1939.; 2nd edition. 1953.

References

^ Authors : Crawley, Rayburn : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia, 28 October 2014
^ "Portor, Laura Spencer (Mrs Francis Pope)". Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature: 501. 1922.