Bio:Thorne Lee

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Robert Buman Says (July 12th, 2008 at 9:52 am): I need to point out an error in your listing for Thorne Lee…. namely the two stories published in Weird Tales… those were not by Thorne Lee, but by ‘Thorne Lee Jr.’ a pen-name of my father, Laurence J. Buman. He usually went by Garson L. Thorne, but the publisher of Weird Tales told him it was Too long of a name, and changed it to Thorne Lee Jr. My father also mentioned a third story that he sent for submission just before he went into the army. He was never sure if that story got published or not… This could be the ‘Ghost Planet’ story that is mentioned as published in Startling Stories, June, 1943. I am excited about this, because it could very well be the missing story!! Also, if you look at the date of his first novel, being 1944, and the other stories all being 1944 or later, the three pre-44 stories don’t fit in.