Ann Warren Griffith
Ann Warren Griffith (June 3, 1918 - May 11, 1983) was an American writer of humorous essays and science fiction.
Early life
[edit]Ann Gilman Warren was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1911 or 1918 (sources vary on this date). She attended Barnard College.[1]
Career
[edit]During World War II, she was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, graduating from flight school in August 1944.[2] After the war, she worked for the Red Cross running a canteen at Wildflecken, an experience she wrote about for The New Yorker.[3][4]
Griffith wrote for The New Yorker, The American Mercury,[5] The Atlantic, and Pegasus (an aviation magazine). Her comic magazine pieces – with titles like "How to Make Housework Easy the Hard Way" and "Gentlemen, Your Tranquilizers are Showing" – were collected in Who Is Hiding in my Hide-a-Bed? (1958). "Ann Warren Griffith must surely be the wackiest of writers ever to set a salty witticism down on paper," began one review of this compilation.[6] She also wrote about television and advertising in syndicated newspaper articles.[7]
Griffith wrote at least two stories in the science fiction genre: "Zeritsky's Law" (Galaxy Science Fiction 1951)[8] and "Captive Audience" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1953).[9] Both stories have been included in several anthologies since publication. "Captive Audience" is a satire about overwhelming advertising on mobile devices, appliances, and packaging, and the desperate search for spaces without constant commercial messages.[10][11]
Personal life
[edit]Ann Warren married after World War II. Ann Warren Griffith died in 1983, in her sixties or early seventies.[1] In 2016 her story "Captive Audience" was reissued in French, as a monograph.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ann Warren Griffith, ISFDB.com
- ^ The Women Pilots of World War II.
- ^ Adam R. Seipp, Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952 (Indiana University Press 2013). ISBN 9780253007070
- ^ Ann Warren Griffith, "Babes in the Wildflecken Woods" The New Yorker (October 28, 1950): 61.
- ^ Ann Griffith, "The Magazines Women Read" The American Mercury (March 1949), anthologized in Nancy A. Walker, ed., Women's Magazines, 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Press (Spring 2016): 234-241. ISBN 9781137050687
- ^ Henry Cavendish, "These May Have You Rolling in the Aisle" Chicago Tribune (November 16, 1958): 237. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Ann Warren Griffith, "Subtle TV Ads Expected in '61" Janesville Daily Gazette (January 18, 1961): 24. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Ann Griffith, "Zeritsky's Law" Galaxy Science Fiction (November 1951), at Project Gutenberg.
- ^ Ann Warren Griffith, "Captive Audience" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1953): 52-62.
- ^ Charles R. Acland, Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (Duke University Press 2012): 159. ISBN 9780822349198
- ^ Lyman Tower Sargent, Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography From 1516 to the Present (Penn State University Libraries).
- ^ Ann Warren Griffith, Audience Captive (Le Passager Clandestin 2016). ISBN 9782369350491
External links
[edit]- Ann Warren Griffith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Works by Ann Warren Griffith at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Ann Warren Griffith, Who is Hiding in my Hide-a-Bed? (Simon & Schuster 1958).
- Ann Warren Griffith, "You Can't Get a Man with a Plane" The New Yorker (October 20, 1951): 67.
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