William Hamling (publisher)
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William Lawrence Hamling was a Chicago-based publisher active from the 1950s into the 1970s.
After work as an editor at Ziff-Davis, Hamling started his company, Greenleaf Publishing, in the early 1950s with Imagination. His wife, the science fiction author Frances Deegan Yerxa Hamling, worked closely with him in the early years of his publishing company. Francis Deegan and William Hamling both had stories in the same issue of the pulp Fantastic Adventures (October 1944).
In the late 1950s, he began Rogue. In 1959, he launched Nightstand Books.
Bill Hamling was also an author. His novel, Shadow of the Sphinx, a horror tale about an ancient Egyptian sorceress was first published during the 1940s in Fantastic Adventures. It was described by Lin Carter as "the best story of its kind I read in many a moon. The character of Zaleikka was done to perfection. This is the type of yarn we have all too few of nowadays."
[edit] Reference
- Talese, Gay. Thy Neighbor's Wife. New York: Doubleday, 1980.
- History of Nightstand Books
- Illustrated checklist of Nightstand Books
[edit] External links
- Earl Kemp on William Hamling in 1959-1961
- Letters from Lenny Bruce to William Hamling
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