{{Short description|American author and poet}} [[File:Stanton A. Coblentz sws1.jpg|thumb|Stanton A. Coblentz, as pictured in the June 1929 issue of ''Science Wonder Stories'']] thumb|right|Coblentz's novelette "The Golden Planetoid" was the cover story for the August 1935 issue of ''Amazing Stories'' [[File:Science Fiction December 1939.jpg|thumb|right|Coblentz's novella "Planet of the Knob Heads" took the cover of the December 1939 issue of ''Science Fiction'', illustrated by Frank R. Paul]] '''Stanton Arthur Coblentz''' (August 24, 1896 – September 6, 1982) was an American writer and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was ''The Sunken World,''<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Coblentz |first=Stanton A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZJwMw1gM2EC |title=The Sunken World |date=2008-03-01 |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |isbn=978-1-4344-6306-7 |language=en}}</ref> a satire about Atlantis, in ''Amazing Stories Quarterly'' for July, 1928. The next year, he published his first novel, ''The Wonder Stick''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Coblentz |first=Stanton A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kh8Cb8MlHRQC&q=Stanton+A.+Coblentz |title=The Wonder Stick |date=2007-10-01 |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |isbn=978-1-4344-9292-0 |language=en}}</ref> But poetry and history were his greatest strengths. Coblentz tended to write satirically. He also wrote books of literary criticism and nonfiction concerning historical subjects. ''Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz'' was published the year after his death.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Coblentz |first1=Stanton Arthur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R1ckAQAAMAAJ |title=Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz |last2=Elliot |first2=Jeffrey M. |date=1993 |publisher=Borgo Press |isbn=978-0-89370-338-7 |language=en}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * ''The Decline of Man'' (1925) [non fiction] * ''The Lone Adventurer'' (1927) * ''The Literary Revolution'' (1927) [non fiction] * ''The Sunken World'' (1928) * ''The Wonder Stick'' (1929)<ref name=":0" /> * ''Shadows on a Wall'' (1930) * ''The Answer of the Ages'' (1931) * ''In Caverns Below'' (1935, also known as ''The Hidden World'') * ''The Pageant of Man'' (1936) * ''Songs by the Wayside'' (1938) * ''Green Vistas'' (1943) * ''Youth Madness'' (1944) * ''When the Birds Fly South'' (1945) * ''An Editor Looks At Poetry'' (1947) * ''The Sunken World'' (1949)<ref name=":1" /> * ''After 12,000 Years'' (1950) * ''Into Plutonian Depths'' (1950) * ''The Planet of Youth'' (1952) * ''Times travelers'' (1952) * ''The Rise of the Anti-Poets'' (1955) * ''Under the Triple Suns'' (1955)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Coblentz |first=Stanton A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tXmGoAEACAAJ |title=Under the Triple Suns |date=2014-05-29 |publisher=Armchair Fiction & Music |isbn=978-1-61287-216-2 |language=en}}</ref> * ''Hidden World'' (1955) * ''The Blue Barbarians'' (1958) * ''My Life in Poetry'' (1959) * ''Next Door to the Sun'' (1960) * ''The Runaway World'' (1961) * ''The Moon People'' (1964) * ''The Last of the Great Race'' (1964) * ''The Lizard Lords'' (1964) * ''The Lost Comet'' (1964) * ''Ten Crises in Civilization'' (1965) * ''Lord of Tranerica'' (1966) * ''The Crimson Capsule'' (1967, also known as ''The Animal People'') * ''The Poetry Circus'' (1967) * ''The Day the World Stopped'' (1968) * ''The Militant Dissenters'' (1970) * ''The Island People'' (1971) * ''Strange Universes'': ''New Selected Poems'' (1977) * ''Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz'' (1983) * ''Light Beyond'' (1989) {{wikisource|works=or}}
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== External links == * {{ISFDB name|id=Stanton_A._Coblentz|name=Stanton A. Coblentz}} * [http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Stanton_A._Coblentz Bibliography] at ''Museum of Learning'' * {{Gutenberg author |id=33343}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Stanton Arthur Coblentz}} * {{Librivox author |id=1268}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811121857/https://webspace.utexas.edu/cokerwr/www/coblentz.html] Brief article about the science fiction written by Coblentz, with many hyperlinked references *{{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=106 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
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