Pulp magazine

:"Pulp fiction" redirects here. For the film, see Pulp Fiction.

Authors and pulp magazines today

Many well-known authors began their careers writing for pulps under assumed names. A distinction can be made between an author who wrote for the pulps but later went on to transcend the limitations of the genre, and a "pulp author" who did not.

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Well-known authors who wrote for the pulps include:

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• Poul Anderson
• Isaac Asimov
• Alfred Bester
• Robert Bloch
• Leigh Brackett
• Ray Bradbury
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Ellis Parker Butler
• Hugh B. Cave
• Raymond Chandler
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Philip K. Dick
• Erle Stanley Gardner
• Graham Greene
• Dashiell Hammett
• Robert Heinlein
• Frank Herbert
• Robert E. Howard
• L. Ron Hubbard
• Elmore John Leonard
• H. P. Lovecraft
• John D. MacDonald
• Johnston McCulley
• Talbot Mundy
• Seabury Quinn
• Richard S. Shaver
• Robert Silverberg
• Clark Ashton Smith
• Jack Vance