He was of partial Native American ancestry. An early story, "Back to the Beast", resulted in one teacher remarking "Your work is impossible!" Yet this same story became his first professional sale when editor Farnsworth Wright bought it and published it in Weird Tales (November 1927).
A distinguished football player, he received little encouragement from either family or teachers for his plans to become a writer. After graduating from Fairmount College (now Wichita State University in Kansas) with a BA in English in 1926, he received a Bachelor of Literature degree from the School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1927. When he was still a young boy, his family moved to the United States, where he attended school in Washington, D.C., and prep school in Salt Lake City. As a small child, Manly twice visited London, where the family stayed in Torrington Square (obliterated during the Battle of Britain). He spoke the native dialect before he learned English, and became an adopted son of a powerful chief whose vision Dr Wellman restored. Wellman's father, Frederick Creighton Wellman, was stationed in the village as a medical officer. Wellman was born in the village of Kamundongo, near the city of Silva Porto in Portuguese West Africa (now Angola). Wellman wrote under a number of different pseudonyms, including Gabriel Barclay, Levi Crow, Gans T. "Silver John", a wandering backwoods minstrel with a silver-stringed guitar the elderly " occult detective" Judge Pursuivant and John Thunstone, also an occult investigator. Three of Wellman's most famous recurring protagonists are John, a.k.a. In 2013, the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation inaugurated an award named after him to honor other North Carolina authors of science fiction and fantasy. He received many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award. Wellman was a long-time resident of North Carolina. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as "the dean of fantasy writers." Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.
While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Manly Wade Wellman (– April 5, 1986) was an American writer.
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