Talk:Howard Allison Sturtzel

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Is this the right article name[edit]

The article seems to cover the joint works of Howard Allison Sturtzel and his wife Jane Levington Comfort Sturtzel just as much as anything about Howard. Also we get basically as much early life information on Jane as on Howard. Jane also seems to have published more one her own than Howard did, although the work by Howard as Paul Annixter may be the most individually impactful.

This [1] 1938 piece from The Southern Review does cover a work by Jane in a broad set of works.

Archives West lists the papers of these two as the [2] Jane and Paul Annixter Papers, so that is a point suggesting we should have a joint article. Although we could have an article on Howard, one on Jane, and one on their joint work. I have not found enough sources yet to justify that, but I have not done an exhaustive search either.

There is [3] which is an entry on Jane Annixter. It only lists works created with Howard (Paul). If we do come up with 3 articles we would have to decide where to redirect the existing Paul Annixter and the not yet existing Jane Annixter.

Library Thing [4], lists over 20 works by Paul and Jane combined, 8 or so by Paul only and 4 by Jane only. However it is not clear what exactly the lone use of a pseudonym meant. For example Year of the She Grtizzily" is just by Jane, is that because only Jane wrote it, and Paul (Howard) always contributed to the ones where Paul was a co-author, or was this a decision to only advertise a female writer on a work about female bears? Since the others are things like Ringtail, I suspect that the former and not the latter is at play, but it would be nice to dig up more sources. The fact that Library Thing does not list any of the works by Jane under her maiden name does not make me confident they have a good grasp of her full literary output.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:11, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I spoke too soon. The Year of the She-Grizzly is by both Paul and Jane, see here [5]. There are other works just by Jane, but this one is atributed to both.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:21, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

More sources on Howard[edit]

I did find this article [6] by Howard that I believe is from the Overland Monthly in 1918. It is the first evidence I have of him publishing something under his birth name.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:29, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]