Greye La Spina

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Greye La Spina


Born
in Wakefield, Massachusetts, The United States
January 01, 1889

Died
January 01, 1969


Greye La Spina was one of the few women to write regularly for the leading fantasy/horror pulps, and was a contributor to the very first issue of the first American pulp magazine devoted exclusively to tales of horror and the fantastic.

Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Methodist minister, she was a precocious child, publishing her own "small press" newspaper at the age of 10, with pages of poems and local gossip. As a teenager, she won a literary contest and had a story published in Connecticut Magazine. La Spina gave up writing to attend to her marriage and the raising of a daughter, but in her early thirties she was drawn back to it.

In the 1920s and 1930s, La Spina worked as a journalist, and she was said to have been t
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