I named this blog "A Shiver in the Archives," but sometimes that shiver is one of revulsion. I'm getting tired of finding photos on the internet of supposed authors, when they are completely and wrongly identified. For example, this photo, which I just observed here,
Not E.A. Wyke-Smith |
I have several photos of Wyke-Smith, shared with me by his family. I published the nicest portrait in The Annotated Hobbit. It, too, has migrated to the internet, where it appears without source-credit at the Open Library and the ISFDB.
Here is a photograph of the actual author.
The real E.A. Wyke-Smith |
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