Robert Tralins
| Robert Tralins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 April 1926 Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| 20 May 2010 (aged 84)20 May 2010 (aged 84) | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
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| 📆 Years active | 1960s–2010 |
Sandor Robert Tralins (April 28, 1926 – May 20, 2010) was an American author of science fiction and pulp fiction. He reportedly wrote over 250 books,[1] and used numerous pseudonyms.[2]
Life
Tralins attended Eastern College in Baltimore, later merged with the University of Baltimore.[3] He was a Marine Corps reservist in the mid-1940s.[3]
In 1966, Tralins sued the Federal Communications Commission, NCAA, and ABC, claiming that they were "responsible for discrimination in regional football telecasts", claiming that residents of the northern United States were being shown games of better-quality football teams than those in the south.[4]
Career
Tralins was evidently interested in fetish and related topics. His The Sexual Fetish describes agalmatophilia and frottage.[5]
Kelso notes that Black Stud (1962), along with similar texts of the period that she traces to Mandingo (1957), "can perniciously reinforce hostile constructions of blacks", as they depict Black people in a dehumanizing and hypersexualized manner.[6]
In 1963, Tralins' Pleasure Was My Business—a ghost-written account of the life and times of Rose Miller ("Madame Sherry"), a madam in Miami[7]—was declared obscene by a Florida court.[8][9] The finding was later overturned by the Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion.[10]
In 1964, Tralins and a neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Michael M. Gilbert, taught ten-lesson memory courses.[11]
In 1966, he wrote Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding, a collection of stories of the paranormal. Some of his stories were adapted for television in 1992 in CBS' Miracles and Other Wonders.[12] In 1997, Tralins' tales were adapted for the TV show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.[13]
References
- ↑ Meacham, Andrew (2010-05-25). "Robert Tralins wrote banned and bordello books, as well as stories that inspired 'Beyond Belief'". Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 – via Wayback Machine. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Writers Directory 1980–82. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1979. p. 1248. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-03650-9. ISBN 978-1-349-03652-3.
Also writes as Ray Z. Bixby, Norman A. King, Keith Miles, Sean O'Shea, Rex O'Toole, Leland Tracy, Richard Trainor, Ruy Traube, Cynthia Sydney, and Dorothy Verdon.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tuck, Donald H., ed. (1978). "Tralins, (S.) Robert". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. 2. Chicago: Advent:Publishers. p. 424. Search this book on
- ↑ "Author sues, claims football TV plot" (PDF). Broadcasting. 71 (19). ProQuest document number 1014490231. 1966-11-07. p. 58.
- ↑ Love, Brenda (2002). The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices. London: Abacus. pp. 7, 119. ISBN 0-349-11535-4. OCLC 59462960. Search this book on
- ↑ Kelso, Sylvia (1997). ""Across Never": Postmodern Theory and Narrative Praxis in Samuel R. Delany's Neveryon Cycle". Science Fiction Studies. 24 (2): 289–301 at 296–297. ISSN 0091-7729.
- ↑ Freedman, Warren (1965). Society on Trial: Current Court Decisions and Social Change. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. p. 148. OCLC 974108628. Search this book on
- ↑ Tralins v. Gerstein, 151 So.2d 19 (1963) (Florida District Court of Appeal).
- ↑ "Writer Sues on Book Ban". The Miami Herald. March 22, 1961. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ↑ Tralins v. Gerstein, 378 U.S. 576 (1964).
- ↑ Wardlow, Jean (November 15, 1964). "Remember Madame Sherry's Ghost? You probably do, but for the wrong reason, says S. Robert Tralins, author turned memory-teacher". The Miami Herald. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ↑ Deggans, Eric (May 25, 1997). "Pinellas man's tales make their way to TV". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ↑ "S. Robert Tralins". Baltimore Sun. 2010-05-23. Unknown parameter
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External links
- Official site via Internet Archive
- Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
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