De Lysle Ferree Cass

De Lysle Ferrée Cass
Born	1887
Died	1973 (aged 85–86)
Pen name	Clark Ashton Smith
Occupation	short story writer
Genres	fantasy

De Lysle Ferrée Cass (1887–1973) was a writer of fantasy short stories. His stories appeared in pulp magazines including The All-Story, The Smart Set and College Life. His novel, As it is Written, was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1982 under the inadvertent pseudonym "Clark Ashton Smith". The manuscript for the novel was discovered in the files of The Thrill Book magazine and mistakenly believed to be the work of Clark Ashton Smith using Cass as a pseudonym. After the novel was published, the mistake was discovered.

References

• De Lysle Ferree Cass at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 328–329. 
• Contento, William G. (2008-05-04). "The FictionMags Index". http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s386.htm#A12913. Retrieved 2008-05-22. 

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Name	Cass, De Lysle Ferree
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Date of birth	1887
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Date of death	1973
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