Short, Gertrude
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1902-1968) US film actor and author, none of the films she appeared in being sf; of sf interest, however, is her novel, A Visitor from Venus (1949), in which the eponymous visitor, from a Utopian Venus inhabited solely by females, comes to Earth and expresses her shock in Satirical terms at the condition of women on this planet (see Feminism). [JC]
Gertrude Short
born Cincinnati, Ohio: 6 April 1902
died Hollywood, California: 31 July 1968
works
- A Visitor from Venus (New York: William Frederick Press, 1949) [hb/]
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