The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mystery Magazine" appeared, edited by Fred Dannay and focusing on detective fiction. The magazine was published in digest format, rather than pulp, and printed a mixture of classic stories and fresh material. Dannay attempted to avoid the sensationalist fiction appearing in the pulps, and soon made the magazine a success. In the early 1940s Anthony Boucher, a successful writer of fantasy and sf and also of mystery stories, got to know Dannay through his work on the Ellery Queen radio show. Boucher also knew J. Francis McComas, an editor who shared his interest in fantasy and sf. By 1944 McComas
Frederic Will Renaissance, under HRC Director, Harry Ransom. "Contemporary American Thought; Twentieth Century Literary Criticism; Politica Economia Cultura" (Santiago de Chile); "Contemporary Authors 1"; "Margins"; "International Who's Who in Poetry". Essay studies of his work in Frank Shynnagh (pseudonym), "Opus," "Iowa Review" (1992); Albert Cook, "On Frederic Will," "Iowa Review" (1992); book length study, Frank Shynnagh (pseudonym), "Song Broken, Song: The Work of Frederic Will" (Mellen, 2008). Frederic Will Frederic Will is a Midwestern American writer. Will has been active in many genres: poetry, fiction, cultural history, philosophy, translation, travel memoir. The American poet/novelist/critic/translator Frederic Will was born in New Haven, Connecticut