Alice Lightner Hopf

Alice Lightner Hopf
Born (1904-10-11)October 11, 1904
Detroit, Michigan
Died February 3, 1988(1988-02-03) (aged 83)
Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
Occupation Writer
Language English
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Vassar College

Alice Lightner Hopf (1904-1988) was an American writer who wrote science fiction under the name of A. M. Lightner and youth textbooks under the name of Alice Hopf. Two of her non-fiction works received awards from the National Science Teachers Association: Biography of a Rhino (1972) and Misunderstood Animals (1973).

Biography

Alice Martha Lightner was born on October 14, 1904 in Detroit, Michigan to Frances (née McGraw) and Clarence Ashley Ligthtner.[1] Her father was an attorney, who was a founder of the Detroit Public Library[2] and her mother was a playwright. After graduating from Vassar College in 1927,[1] she moved to New York and worked as a secretary, writing in her spare time.[2] In 1935, she married an artist originally from Germany, Ernest Hopf,[3] with whom she had two children son Christopher and daughter C.C.[4]

She was a naturalist and prolific science fiction writer during the New Wave.[5][4] As other women writers did at the time, her pseudonym for her fictional works used only initials, as publishers feared boys would not read works written by women. Her juvenile fiction was published in the name of A. M. Lightner. She also published children's non-fiction books under the name of Alice L. Hopf[6] on topics in natural history and entomology, and was a member of several New York-based scientific societies.[2][7] Her non-fiction works, Biography of a Rhino and Misunderstood Animals received awards from the National Science Teachers Association in 1972 and 1973, respectively.[1][2]

She died on February 3, 1988 at her home in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania.[4]

Bibliography

Series: Rock of Three Planets:

  • Rock of Three Planets (1963)
  • The Planet Poachers (1965)
  • The Space Ark (1968)

Novels:

  • Doctor to the Galaxy (1965)
  • The Galactic Troubadours (1965)[8]
  • The Space Plague (1965)
  • The Space Olympics (1967)
  • Wild Traveler (1967)
  • The Day of the Drones (1969), a novel noted for its reversal of gender and race roles.[9]
  • The Walking Zoo of Darwin Dingle (1969)
  • The Thursday Toads (1971)
  • Gods Or Demons? (1973)
  • Star Dog (1973)
  • The Space Gypsies (1974)
  • Star Circus (1977)

Non-fiction:

  • Monarch Butterflies (Cromwell, 1965)[10]
  • Biography of an American Reindeer (Putnam, 1976)
  • Nature's Pretenders (Putnam, 1979)[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Reginald, Menville & Burgess 2010, p. 977.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Commire 1989, p. 47.
  3. ↑ "Two Weddings are Announced". The Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. April 30, 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 10 October 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 3 "Alice Lightner Hopf, Author, 83". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  5. ↑ Davin, Eric Leif (2005-12-12). Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. p. 391. ISBN 9780739112670.
  6. ↑ Nilsen, Alleen Pace (April 1974). "Jane Sits Home While Tarzan Swings—Unrealism in Teenage Books". Arizona English Bulletin. 16 (3): 29–30. ISSN 0004-1483. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  7. ↑ Ward & Marquardt 1979, p. 133.
  8. ↑ Hintz, Carrie; Ostry, Elaine (2013-10-11). Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults. Routledge. p. 214. ISBN 9781135373436.
  9. ↑ Moylan, Tom; Baccolini, Raffaella (2003). Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. Psychology Press. pp. 31–34. ISBN 9780415966139.
  10. ↑ "Monarch Butterflies". Kirkus Reviews. October 15, 1965. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Nature's Pretenders". Kirkus Reviews. July 24, 1979. Retrieved October 6, 2018.

Bibliography

  • Commire, Anne, ed. (1989). "Hopf, Alice (Martha) L(ightner) 1904-1988". Something about the author. 55. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research. p. 47. ISBN 0-8103-2265-X.
  • Reginald, Robert; Menville, Douglas; Burgess, Mary A., eds. (2010). "A. M. Lightner". Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974. 2: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company. p. 977. ISBN 978-0-941028-77-6.
  • Ward, Martha E; Marquardt, Dorothy A. (1979). Authors of Books for Young People: Supplement to the second edition. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1159-6.
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