Stanton Arthur Coblentz
Illustration — Stanton A. Coblentz, as pictured in the June 1929 issue of Science Wonder Stories • Illustration — Coblentz's novelette "The Golden Planetoid" was the cover story for the August 1935 issue of Amazing Stories • Illustration — Coblentz's novella "Planet of the Knob Heads" took the cover of the December 1939 issue of Science Fiction, illustrated by Frank R. Paul Stanton Arthur Coblentz (August 24, 1896 – September 6, 1982) was an American writer and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was The Sunken World, a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928.
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Stanton Arthur Coblentz

unidentified staff artist · Science Wonder Stories, June 1929, p74 · Public domain
- Born
- 1896 · San Francisco.
- Died
- 1982 · Monterey.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- novelist · poet · writer
- Education
- University of California
- Languages
- American English
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Stanton Arthur Coblentz lived from 24 August 1896 to 6 September 1982 and is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Stanton Arthur Coblentz was born on 24 August 1896. Stanton Arthur Coblentz died on 6 September 1982.
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Born at San Francisco in 1896, died in Monterey in 1982.
Stanton Arthur Coblentz studied at University of California. The recorded working language is American English.
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- 1.Coblentz, Stanton A. The Sunken World. Wildside Press LLC. 2008-03-01. 978-1-4344-6306-7.
- 2.Coblentz, Stanton A. The Wonder Stick. Wildside Press LLC. 2007-10-01. 978-1-4344-9292-0.
- 3.Coblentz, Stanton Arthur. Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz. Borgo Press. 1993. 978-0-89370-338-7.
- 4.Coblentz, Stanton A. Under the Triple Suns. Armchair Fiction & Music. 2014-05-29. 978-1-61287-216-2.
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- The Decline of Man (1925) [non fiction]
- The Lone Adventurer (1927)
- The Literary Revolution (1927) [non fiction]
- The Sunken World (1928)
- The Wonder Stick (1929)
- Shadows on a Wall (1930)
- The Answer of the Ages (1931)
- In Caverns Below (1935, also known as The Hidden World)
- The Pageant of Man (1936)
- Songs by the Wayside (1938)
- Green Vistas (1943)
- Youth Madness (1944)
- When the Birds Fly South (1945)
- An Editor Looks At Poetry (1947)
- The Sunken World (1949)
- After 12,000 Years (1950)
- Into Plutonian Depths (1950)
- The Planet of Youth (1952)
- Times travelers (1952)
- The Rise of the Anti-Poets (1955)
- Coblentz, Stanton A. Under the Triple Suns. Armchair Fiction & Music. 2014-05-29. 978-1-61287-216-2.
- Hidden World (1955)
- The Blue Barbarians (1958)
- My Life in Poetry (1959)
- Next Door to the Sun (1960)
- The Runaway World (1961)
- The Moon People (1964)
- The Last of the Great Race (1964)
- The Lizard Lords (1964)
- The Lost Comet (1964)
- Ten Crises in Civilization (1965)
- Lord of Tranerica (1966)
- The Crimson Capsule (1967, also known as The Animal People)
- The Poetry Circus (1967)
- The Day the World Stopped (1968)
- The Militant Dissenters (1970)
- The Island People (1971)
- Strange Universes: New Selected Poems (1977)
- Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz (1983)
- Light Beyond (1989)
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