Forgotten Authors: Harl Vincent
Harl Vincent born Harold Vincent Schoepflin on October 19, 1893 in Buffalo, New York to Ida (nee Kuntz) and Reverend William Schoepflin. Vincent married Ruth F. Hoff in 1911. They had a daughter, Jane, in 1913 and a son, Guy, in 1925.
He debuted in the June, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories with the story “The Golden Girl of Munan” and he published in Amazing, Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, Astounding, and other magazines into the 1930s. He managed to continue to sell to Amazing after Hugo Gernsback lost control of the magazine, often bringing a sense of wonder to the stories, even if they were not particularly innovative. Walter Gillings noted that Vincent was not particularly successful at adapting to Amazing’s “thought-variant” demands of the time.